[lit-ideas] The Odd Job
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 20:16:53 EDT
In a message dated 5/25/2010 8:11:17 P.M., rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:
One can hear paramedics, firefighters, members of mountain rescue groups
(well, I actually haven't heard of any of them doing it), and Boy Scouts,
waving off praise, deprecating the risks they took, the danger they were in
by saying—all together now:—'I was only doing my job!'
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Did they mean it as an ANSWER?
Robert Paul (to Boy Scout). What are you doing?
Boy Scout: I'm (only) doing my job.
It seems otiose.
At least he's not going, "I'm doing my duty".
For every Englishman knows that one ought to do what one to think it's
one's duty. Tautological.
Suppose it were NOT their job. Then it would be illegal, right?
J. L., Bordighera -- where nobody does their 'job' ("job" is a cheap
word).he
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