Like you, Jo, I never thought of Bill as a curmudgeon and I doubt that anyone here could give a single example of his curmudgeoness. Bill, although notoriously ribald at times, was kind and thoughtful to a fault.
In the post below I think that Bill was responding to my mock chiding, with me playfully accusing him of thinking too much of himself.
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BILL LOVES BILL
Dear Milo:
I have always been well above the middle of
the pack, but never close to the top. I always had a few
good friends, and never any real enemies. Girls were always
quite successful at concealing any desire for me to court
them.
My father was a school doctor, and gave kids shots.
They took their resentment out on me. I got enough practice
fighting that I could get in enough licks so that the few
kids who could lick me chose easier victims. I had to work
nights and go to school days when I ws in in college.
I never went to a college game. I always had to be studying.
But I remember so many of my boyhood chums who were not so lucky as I
was.
I take a quiet pride in having overcome some
nasty bits of adversity. For instance, in my senior year,
I had advanced to the graveyard shift at a high priced
mental hospital switchboard. But then, three months before
graduation, the woman in charge of the business office,
told me, with great big tears in her eyes, that the guy
who had had the first shift was her godson. And, as he was
delicate, and a candidate for honors, I was going to
have to work his shift, plus my own, for three months with
no extra pay.
I had no alternative. I didn't make honors.
Incidentally, the other guy was the youngest brother
of Earle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason.
So I'm a self-made man.
A horrible example of poor workmanship.
Bill
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Afterwards Bill must have had a change of heart about poor workmanship as he responded to something that I posted by posting...
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BILL LOVES BILL
I love me. I am the best.The merry hell with all the rest.
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Last edited by themilum; 12/26/06 03:15 AM.
