http://red-cedar.ca/?p=1683 More apocalypse, less angst. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:17:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://red-cedar.ca/?p=1683&cpage=1#comment-48263 peter Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:11:25 +0000 http://red-cedar.ca/?p=1683#comment-48263 In conversation with a freshly minted geezer, I was told that at one company in the 60s, the best salesman for residential installs was, well, I don't know if there is a way to say this that won't offend someone, queer. Not quite like you or I. In retrospect, it would be easy for us to comment that he was probably homosexual (wicked at interior decor sales - too easy!) but then, it just wasn't done. Your direct personal opinion wasn't usually asked for, or given. The facts was: this guy closes the big deals. If anybody cared about anything else, they never mentioned it. Now, he said (the geezer, not the salesman), it seems mandatory to have an opinion on things no matter if it's relevant or not. In conversation with a freshly minted geezer, I was told that at one company in the 60s, the best salesman for residential installs was, well, I don’t know if there is a way to say this that won’t offend someone, queer. Not quite like you or I. In retrospect, it would be easy for us to comment that he was probably homosexual (wicked at interior decor sales – too easy!) but then, it just wasn’t done. Your direct personal opinion wasn’t usually asked for, or given. The facts was: this guy closes the big deals. If anybody cared about anything else, they never mentioned it. Now, he said (the geezer, not the salesman), it seems mandatory to have an opinion on things no matter if it’s relevant or not.

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