Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for November 13, 2011

Umm… am I the only one who knows how to say “No, thank you” without feeling like I need to give a reason? Much as I like Rose (she’s my home page after all), I sometimes don’t get her spinelessness without Vikki’s help.

Hey, go to the party, enjoy the company and don’t buy a thing!

Good thinking! If you want to be polite, that gives you time to think up a polite excuse, e.g. “Just as I was going out the door, my … .”.

Actually I think that is a horrible solution. People are just way to inconsiderate about things like that today. If she didn’t go, then how would she face that person? As courtesy goes, so does our country. Used to make me sick when my Dad said that, but I get it now.

But the finest nauga hide comes from the unborn nauga.

Let her bring her jalapeno dip. That’ll break up the party pretty quick and she’ll never be invited to another.

My response to “You;re too nice of a person for that kind of nonsense” would have been, “I thought you were too nice of a person to ambush me like this…so, I guess we were both wrong.”

She’s already put down to go, so she has to go in order to get it over with.

That reminds me of the story told on the commentary track of the Top Secret! dvd. After the movie shooting was completed, the directors & producers had invited Omar Sharif to supper at a local restaurant (as a thank-you for being in the movie). Everyone waited for Sharif to show up and he never came. Turned out that Sharif really didn’t want to go but since it wasn’t considered good manners in Egyptian culture to say no in these instances, he said that he’d be there and simply didn’t show up (in fact, Sharif was already out-of-town when the supper was held).

So, what’s the big deal? She liked the necklace and she MIght see something she actually wants. If not, just say no.

I hope Rose goes in her biker chick persona to that party! That’ll liven it up and then some.

Welcome to Paige’s captive audience!

I just said No to those kind of “invites”. Pretty soon no one bothered to ask.

Really^-. My wife had a shocking and up-front response: F*ck you. Worked really well, too.

I’m sorry. I have plans.

You have to assertive and say no.

I do network marketing on the side, but I never ambush or con people. If they’re looking, fine, I got something for them. If they’re not looking, fine, I don’t want them. And on our merry way we go and we’re still friends. Now that was easy, wasn’t it?

Bring a gigantic bowl of beans to the party.

Way too sneaky. I almost got trapped that way by an electrical engineer (who I thought wanted to collaborate) to go to an Amway event :-( !!

^ Me too — by a family member. A party on a Monday night was the tip-off.