Ozdelights wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:46 pmWhat can I say? Please keep warm!
I try very hard to do so.
On the other note, it seems there was a positively massive misunderstanding on her part the other day, and this morning I found an apology on my mobile, which was confirmed in a subsequent voice call. We're trying to patch things back together. I'm hopeful, but cautious.
The main thrust of it was that she was trying to goad me into something I was NOT going to do, and used slurs as part of that that I've had to endure for longer than my adult life, and the same one that caused me to walk away from my failing grandfather who, the next time I saw him, was in a box. The other one was to challenge the Captain's Prerogative which states, "If the Captain, who is responsible for his safety, the safety of his ship, and all of those who sail on her, indicates he is not confident of a safe voyage then he is absolutely within his rights to stay in port." -- and I was not going to compromise on that one. The former. in context, was merely a powerful annoyance. I also offered modern parallels to the latter, one of which has resonances with her where somebody made a very bad decision and undertook a flight which he should not have and which he was badgered into by a cranky spoilt wife and splashed his aircraft into Nantucket Sound on a flight between Hyannis and Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts several years ago killing all aboard -- all to make it to a wedding rehearsal dinner. I'm enough of a man to be confident in my decisions -- even if those decisions mean to "stay put".
However, with an apology being offered, I played "the Big Dog" and accepted it, and we shall see what happens.
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