LOL! John On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 'I forgot my gloves,' said the fireman on the ladder to the woman in the > window reaching out to him. > > 'That's all right,' she said, 'I'm on the pill.' > > ——————————————————————————————**—————————————————— > > Robert Paul > > > > Because the availability of gloves leads people to feel it is all right >> to "hold hands". And these people don't want other people to think it's >> all right to hold hands at all because they don't want to have to take >> care of what might result if hands were held without gloves. So they >> take away gloves from the people most likely to hold hands so they won't >> feel all right about holding hands, even though they'll hold hands >> anyway. For some people, just the existence of gloves upsets them. I >> trust that cleared everything up for you. >> > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit > www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.**html<http://www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html> > -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 jlm@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.wordworks.jp/