TEXT; 001 - locked from laurent
[Faolan is definitely not the sort of person to use the network, not even to respond to it never mind to post to it. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and certainly this is a desperate time indeed.
How do people even usually address posts on this thing? He goes through the last month or so of them before giving up and just flying by the seat of his pants.
You don't even know how many times he rewrote this thing in the first place.]
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that there was something quite expensive that you had wanted very much, and that someone purchased that something for you when they really didn't have to. Let's say that you could never hope to come up with the money to pay them back in full, but you would like to do something comparable for them for the holidays.
What would you do in such a situation?
[Help him, Retrospec,you're his only hope he desperately needs some advice here.]
How do people even usually address posts on this thing? He goes through the last month or so of them before giving up and just flying by the seat of his pants.
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that there was something quite expensive that you had wanted very much, and that someone purchased that something for you when they really didn't have to. Let's say that you could never hope to come up with the money to pay them back in full, but you would like to do something comparable for them for the holidays.
What would you do in such a situation?
[Help him, Retrospec,
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It sounds like such a lovely gift. It's planning it out where I'll need some serious consideration. Is it wrong if the laugh is a little bit at my own expense, in the end?
[Faolan is willing to sacrifice just about anything for Laurent, up to and yes, including his dignity.]
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You don't think it comes off as... Self-deprecating and pathetic, or something of the sort instead?
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But if you're doing it because you have a good sense of humor about it, and the self-confidence to take that sort of blow to the ego in stride and laugh along with everyone else, then I think that's highly attractive. It's a demonstration that you're the master of your own faults, instead of letting them be the master of you.
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No one's ever accused me of being overly confident. I mean, I've started out this conversation asking for gift advice from strangers, after all.
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I realize that may sound sarcastic, but it's an honest question.
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I have a habit of making a fool of myself in front of this person especially, despite my best efforts otherwise. Maybe I'm just trying too hard, I don't know.
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I may be going out on a limb here, but do you by any chance have some variety of romantic attachment to the person in question?
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[Damn it, Faolan, you should have quit while you were ahead here.]