Thread: Parallells....
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Old 10-29-2002, 12:11 AM   #34
Kalimac
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Nice topic [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]. I do insurance adjusting (for the moment - I'm seriously considering quitting outright, because it's literally giving me an ulcer). Want to know who I talk to? In addition to many decent, normal members of the Race of Men, there are many, many Orcs and Orc-minded ("to whom only the squalid sounds strong") - unfortunately they know that if they get upset, they can insult my education, morality, intelligence etc. with impunity because thanks to workplace codes I cannot answer them back in like manner. More than once I've felt like Pippin, being smacked around by an Orc (in a metaphorical sense, of course). And I've developed a tendency to mutter "But you have chosen the way - of - PAIN!!" after a particuarly nasty person has hung up. Since you can bet that I'm going to be demanding every last receipt that he has, thanks to his rudeness [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].
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