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<p>[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 93455, member: 57"]Surely you folks don't want me to repeat my true story of having the very top of one of my legs encircled by unknown hands from behind when I was standing at a refrigerator at a party sponsored by a church group for "young business and professionals." I had used the maneuver Daddy taught me by quickly sending my right elbow back at a height designed to hit a man (depending on his height) either in a really sensitive area or in his stomach. When I swung my elbow back (first and only time I ever had to use that maneuver) my arm never made contact with the perpetrator (it went over his head).</p><p><br /></p><p>The real kicker being that after that last incident (and a couple of previous less-blatant but not-polite incidents with two male members of that group) I decided it was time to see if <b><u>I</u></b> was causing the problem(s). </p><p><br /></p><p>I paid $50 (which was quite a bit of money to an independent single woman in the early 1970s) to see a psychiatrist in my city. The psychiatrist made only one comment (but repeated it two or three times) at that <u>one and only</u> $50 appointment and that comment was "I've never seen a dwarf in (name of my city)." I had already had to "educate" the psychiatrist to the fact that I knew the body-build difference between a midget and a dwarf. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 93455, member: 57"]Surely you folks don't want me to repeat my true story of having the very top of one of my legs encircled by unknown hands from behind when I was standing at a refrigerator at a party sponsored by a church group for "young business and professionals." I had used the maneuver Daddy taught me by quickly sending my right elbow back at a height designed to hit a man (depending on his height) either in a really sensitive area or in his stomach. When I swung my elbow back (first and only time I ever had to use that maneuver) my arm never made contact with the perpetrator (it went over his head). The real kicker being that after that last incident (and a couple of previous less-blatant but not-polite incidents with two male members of that group) I decided it was time to see if [B][U]I[/U][/B] was causing the problem(s). I paid $50 (which was quite a bit of money to an independent single woman in the early 1970s) to see a psychiatrist in my city. The psychiatrist made only one comment (but repeated it two or three times) at that [U]one and only[/U] $50 appointment and that comment was "I've never seen a dwarf in (name of my city)." I had already had to "educate" the psychiatrist to the fact that I knew the body-build difference between a midget and a dwarf. :banghead:[/QUOTE]
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