Well, I dunno if I am getting wiser or people are merely catching up and can now see what I might have tried to tell them. In the early 80's I stopped sitting still for "pick-on-Susan" crap around the family holiday dinner time. My sister would rant away that I HAD to stay at the table, this is a FAMILY DAY! I'd go read till I felt like coming out again. So last week, she calls me up-- "You know how sometimes you just aren't available to be involved in an upset? Like the time you xxxx or the time you xxxxxxxx..... How did you DO that? I need to learn how!" A workplace situation was suddenly apparent to her as an old, old replay she was falling for each time it came around again. So I told her how. LOL-- in another coupla years it will probably sink in!

The older I get, actually, the more I realize I don't know, and the less I care that people know I don't know things. I do know one or two things, tho, and people seem to keep coming to me to hear about them, even if they don't believe me till later if at all.

And I think I am learning when to not waste my time telling people things they are not ready to hear, and how to spot readiness better. Cuz asking me stuff doesn't equal being ready.

But I could be wrong. :~)

~Susan