[identity profile] tomscholfield.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
On the evening of July 26 as I was walking down Highland Ave toward the Square I found a Citizens Bank Card, a Credit Card and a San Francisco Drivers License on the sidewalk. Right across from where Alex Pizza and Magpie used to be.

Shoot me an e-mail if you have lost these and I can get them back to you.

Date: 2007-06-28 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] overstim.livejournal.com
I could accuse you of being condescending and patronizing, but Im sure youre not, and Im just misreading your intent. Such is the nature of type vs. the spoken word.

After all, who would read a couple lines in a post and automatically jump to the conclusion they were being smug and not, maybe, using hyperbole?

But perhaps you are a patronizing prat after all, and you dont deserve the benefit of the doubt. Im going to give it to you anyway, because this is a great community and yadda yadda...

Date: 2007-06-28 08:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hahathor.livejournal.com
Oh sweetie. I was being condescending and patronizing. I thought that would be clear. Note the post above says:

Being a smug, sanctimonious asshole is rarely the right choice.

Note the emphasized word rarely, which implies that it is sometimes the right choice. It's probably not the right choice if you're responding to someone who's going out of their way to do something kind for an unknown person that they've never met. It probably is the right choice if you can get the type of amusing pouty response you give above.

Hope this helps.

As long as I'm dishing out much needed help: "simaritan" [sic] is spelled Samaritan, and is generally capitalized. And "youre" [sic], being a contraction, traditionally contains an apostrophe.

Of course, Murphy's law of posting guarantees that there will be at least on glaring spelling or grammar error in this comment, which will allow you the opportunity to all-too-predictably respond to this.

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