"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
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>>You are over the top because you made a big issue out of some girl
>>mailing letters.
>
> I made a big issue out of some thoughtless MFFY monopolizing access to
> a scarce shared resource. And rightly so.

Clearly she wasn't "monoplizing access" since she left enough room for you
to drop your letter in the slot. Or did you shove her out of the way?

> Oh, so it's OK to monopolize access to the mail slot if there is one
> person in line behind you, but at some point it becomes not OK? So how
> many people have to be waiting in line before this bimbo becomes a
> MFFY?

You already said you were able to mail your letter without waiting. Where's
the beef?

> > As for how long the line was, I have already stated that there was one
> other woman in line behind me when I deposited my letter.

Well originally you said -"As a line began to form behind her, I simply
walked up right next to her, waited for one of the 1-second pauses, and
quickly slipped my one letter into the slot. I then immediately turned and
left the building." "As a line began to form" is not the same as you and one
other woman in line." In fact it implies you were never in line at all.
Later you said "Nice try, but I was the only other person in line when I
arrived." So with this revision you are in line, but the only person in line
and this is hardly a line since you also said "I simply walked up right next
to her, waited for one of the 1-second pauses, and quickly slipped my one
letter into the slot. I then immediately turned and left the building." From
these statements we can infer that you were the only one in line (if you can
call watching someone for a brief period being in a line) and that you
didn't actually stay in line but instead moved beside the lady and mailed
your letter and immeadiately left the building. So where was the line, did
you go back to look for it later? Where was this lady you now claim was in
line behind you in the original story? And be honest now - since there was
obviously room for you to mail your letter, what difference did it make if
the lady was slow? As far as I can tell from your own words, you weren't
inconvenienced at all. And to be fair to you - if you didn't shove the lady
out of the way - I can't see where you did anything wrong either, at least
until you tried to make the lady out to be an of example of an evil sloth.

>>For heaven sakes, wating 30 sec could hardly have impacted you life.
>
> "I'll Be Just A Minute" makes it all OK, doesn't it? As long as the
> duration is "short" I should "have patience" and be a JLEDI, right?
>
>>If you had waited the thirty seconds, and not written the story, you would
>>be time ahead now.
>
> I enjoyed writing the story; I did NOT enjoy waiting for this
> inconsiderate Sloth to finish what should have been a 5-second task.

From you own words, we can infer you only watcfhed the lady for no more than
5 seconds. For all you know while you were heading out of the building, she
slid the remaining letters into the slot at once.

>>> >He clearly didn't wait for her to drop in all 20 envelopes
>>>
>>> Oh, I see: I'm "over the top" because I'm not a JLEDI.
>>
>>No, you are over the top becasue you seem to think that anyone who
>>inconveniences you in any little way is some sort of evil MFFY person.
>
> Aren't they? How else would you describe a person who has so little
> consideration for their fellow human beings?

Hmm, well you certainly seem to be filling in the definition for me. It seem
to me that in many of your little MFFY stories you are at least as much the
MFFY person as the one you write about.

> BTW, since you seem to enjoy wasting your time waiting behind MFFYs so
> much, may 1000 Sloths each take 10 minutes to mail their letters while
> you are waiting patiently in line behind them.

Actaully I rarely mail letters at the post office. The post man picks them
up from my home. And when I need to go to the post office I go early in the
morning, so I rarely have to wait and people rarely have to wait behind me.
But thanks for thinking about me.

Ed