Reminds me of a recent "Tampa Tale": I work with a young single lady in her mid to late 30s. She's very nice, a real geek, and far less stodgy than the rest of our coworkers. Not a looker, but a nice, plain, down to Earth person. Her Dad was literally a rocket scientist and worked for many years with Dod contractors in Southern California, and a lot of that environment has carried over to her.
As a result of this, we often lunch together, since our peers can't handle such bizarre dishes like sushi or a nice warm brie. We were walking back from a sushi lunch the other day when we came upon one of our coworkers from another floor, Dana. Now mind you, I'm as hetero as they get, but Dana is a good looking man - tanned, very buff, etc. As soon as we walked up to Dana, this young lady's disposition changed completely. Suddenly she was all warm and fuzzy, gushy, etc., behaviors I had never seen her exhibit. One of the best examples I have ever seen of "code switching" in my life. Needless to say, I hassled her (all in good fun) incessantly about it all afternoon. Oh - she's a car person, too. BMWs and the original Minis. She's even competed in a couple of the "Lemons" races at Sebring. Dan On Apr 13, 2014, at 3:09 PM, WILTON wrote: > Well, this is not much; not sure if ya've seen it before; if so, please > pardon the redundancy. > > TOUGHER THAN YOU THOUGHT > > While I was Director of Engineering at Sondrestrom Air Base, Greenland, in > 1978, I talked on the phone several times with BGen. Paulk at HQ in Co. > Springs; also visited with 'im at least 3 times, twice in Co. Springs and > once at Sondy. On one of my trips to Co. Springs, Gen Paulk and I noticed > each other as we were getting on an airplane at Denver. Gen. Paulk talked to > stewardess, who got guy in seat beside him to switch with me. As we were > arriving at Co. Springs, Gen. Paulk inquired of me, "Wilt, do you have a ride > to your hotel?" I responded, "No, Sir, but I'm picking up an Air Force car at > Peterson AFB Motor Pool." He replied, "Ride with me, then, I'll drop you > off." While The Gen. and I were waiting for our bags, a mighty fine-looking, > young blond female captain (in civilian clothes) I had known in the B-52 unit > in Michigan three or four years before came running toward me squealing, > "Wilton! Wilton!" Gen. Paulk and I were in uniform, but the fine-looking > captain and I hugged enthusiastically, and chatted a bit, and, as our bags were showing up, she asked, "Do have a ride Wilt? I'll drop you off somewhere if you need it." I replied, "No thank you, I'm picking up an Air Force car at the base motor pool; Gen. Paulk's gonna drop me off there." As the fine young thing went prancing off in her high heels, Gen. Paulk said, "Wilt, you're dumber than I thought; I'da gone with HER." I replied, "Well, I guess that shows how tough I am, too, doesn't it?" > > Wilton > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 1:21 PM > Subject: [MBZ] POLITICS > > >> This has gone on long enough. Politics are not an appropriate list topic as >> has been pointed out numerous times in the past, and of late have >> overshadowed nearly everything else. >> >> Take it somewhere else, folks. There will be no further warnings. Posting >> political topics will get you moderated. >> >> I would rather see the traffic drop off than to have to constantly hit >> "Delete". >> >> Wilton, time for a Sondy tale, please. >> >> ListDan >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On Apr 13, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Rich Thomas >>> <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: >>> >>> YOU WERE WARNED but since you are here >>> >>> http://www.michellesmirror.com/2014/04/beyond-clive-bundy-real-range-war-and.html >>> >>> http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2014/04/black-helicopters.html >>> >>> --R >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >>> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. 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