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WCDT: Independence Day Week (4 - 8 July, 1961-1965)
Carl-E:
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--- Quote from: jwhouk on 06 Jul 2011, 05:51 ---By the bye: anyone think this might put a damper on the business relationship?
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Baking Soda instead of Baking Powder.........
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No, no - Jim wouldn't sabotage his own baking like that.
I really doubt that establishing themselves as friends instead of potentially more (it was only a first date, after al) will harm the business agreement.
Might even help a bit.
NotAwesomeAnymore:
Alarmingly similar to 509... But I don't think Jim's reaction was particularly Marten-ish, actually. I mean, he'd just gone on a date with someone he didn't know well and couldn't have been emotionally invested in. She confides in him about her issues, a situation in which a person usually tries to be sensitive to prevent it from getting more awkward. Then she says it's not gonna work, not in a bitchy way, not while mistreating him. I mean, I can't think of him reacting any other way that wouldn't seem childish, tantrum-y and like he was obsessed with her.
Tiogyr:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 06 Jul 2011, 05:51 ---By the bye: anyone think this might put a damper on the business relationship?
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Maybe if Jim were still a teenager/20-something himself, but on his part I'd be surprised if it did (if it does at all, it will be due to Dora freaking out, not Jim). Plus it's not like the way Jim is reacting is all that surprising.
It was a first date, the only people that would react horribly to how Dora was talking at Jim's age on a first date would be someone that is unbelievably immature. Most people have figured out by that point that first dates don't actually matter that much in the scheme of things and don't invest themselves that much in them.
westrim:
Well, at least one of them is a responsible adult. *Harrumphs*
On the topic of the Marten/Cosette thing, I think it entirely likely that he would have mentioned it later on, as part of dinner chat or somesuch. Notice that she ambushed him about it immediately after he entered. What was he supposed to do, run into CoD yelling "Dora, guess what! A girl actually asked me out, isn't that crazy!?" But instead she asks obviously loaded questions and he does the logical but dumb for human interaction thing of shutting down until he knows what the questions are loaded with. And she asked that way despite already knowing that his being asked out was an abject failure, so she already had nothing to worry about. So in terms of openness, she failed by asking about the topic that way, and what he did was only a reaction to her deception.
Tiogyr:
--- Quote from: westrim on 06 Jul 2011, 06:27 ---Well, at least one of them is a responsible adult. *Harrumphs*
On the topic of the Marten/Cosette thing, I think it entirely likely that he would have mentioned it later on, as part of dinner chat or somesuch. Notice that she ambushed him about it immediately after he entered. What was he supposed to do, run into CoD yelling "Dora, guess what! A girl actually asked me out, isn't that crazy!?" But instead she asks obviously loaded questions and he does the logical but dumb for human interaction thing of shutting down until he knows what the questions are loaded with. And she asked that way despite already knowing that his being asked out was an abject failure, so she already had nothing to worry about. So in terms of openness, she failed by asking about the topic that way, and what he did was only a reaction to her deception.
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I don't know, it makes sense to me that someone with a history of backstabbing boyfriends would freak out over their current boyfriend lying to them (about any subject). Not saying it's right, but it does make sense.
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