Personal Family Event

Aunt: You try to give a hint, but he wouldn't have even started on it if I hadn't gone in there with a screwdriver and started getting the putty off.

Me: So you felt like you were working alone. Pretty isolated there at the window.

Uncle: You start making enough of noise, nobody can be alone in this house.

Aunt: I'll tell you isolated. That good window glass for three days up against the wall, until I got cold enough from the bad one.

Aunt: Yes, broken. A whole section in the upper left corner cracked and fell out. I guess the putty fell out of on the outside. Then the snow came, and the ice came, and when we turned on the heater the little section cracked out, and the whole window cracked across. . . . I measured the size in the window and went to Home Depot to get a replacement and set it on the wall next to the broken window. When [my uncle] got home from work I asked him to replace it. He said he'd do it, but he never "got around to it."

Uncle: And that's what I mean. Making noise about a window shouldn't get put in until it gets warmer. Making noise.

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. Working independently. Friend There is a situation with a friend of my sister's who has dated a young man she wants to get closer to but whom she sees irregularly. At an informal dinner out, this friend talked about the boyfriend. Friend: I just want a relationship. Me: Somebody to be close to. Sure. Friend: I mean, what is it with you guys? "You never write, you never call." Me: (laugh) "We never write, we never call . . ." Sister: That hits pretty close to home. Me: Ouch, ouch. Friend: OK, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, right? I mean, he's not married, and he says he's not seeing anybody. But, we went out through all of October, and then once in November, and calling each other every day. Then here comes Thanksgiving and he disappears. Week after Thanksgiving--couple of calls, hello, how are you. We see each other two nights in a row. I cooked dinner for him once, and I'm, stupid me, I think I'm seeing him permanently now. Me: Why do you say you're stupid? What's stupid? You cooked dinner for him-- Friend: Well, here I'm in love again, going shopping and everything. Oh, this is stupid-- Me: No, no. Come on. You're going to sit on this all night? Why do you think your feelings are stupid? You cooked f
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