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In response to "pixie, what was the response to irrational carpool girl? -- nm" by kare

prudence sez . . .

Posted by moles (aka chris) Jul 18 '11, 12:41

EMILY YOFFE :

Clearly the answer is for your husband to quit his job and stay at home with an ankle bracelet that alerts you as to his movements so you can track whether he's being "kind" to other women. Guess what, however he and his colleague get to the office, he's going to be spending hours a day in close proximity to her and away from you. Would you be happier if your husband worked at a monastery? He might find his co-worker's company delightful or tedious, but commuting with her does not mean she's in the line-up to become his next wife. But if you want him to be unhappy with the wife he has, keep making irrational demands.

Responses:

rar! -- nm - b. Jul 18, 12:58
Prudence is the hot co-worker obviously. -- nm - Inigo Jul 18, 12:48
obviously homelife must be so unpleasant/disfunctional that he is loath to leave the peaceful car to enter into the hell within the house -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 12:46 6
- nothing indicated he was spending extra time int he car. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 12:47 5
  - right. that was just pixie getting it ALL WRONG - kare Jul 18, 12:47 4
    - where did i read that he sat in the car talking for 90 min? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 13:25 2
      - oh wait, i must have confused it with a pyschic message from madonna -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 13:27
      - it's called commuting -- nm - oblique Jul 18, 13:27
    - dear prudence, this "acquaintance" of mine on an online message board is constantly misrepresenting things - oblique Jul 18, 12:49
whoa - thats the most aggressive thing I've seen her write -- nm - Pippy Jul 18, 12:45 9
- Hmm, she's usually pretty in-your-face. -- nm - nubby Jul 18, 12:54 3
  - not really - she always soft sells it and then wants the readers to back her play - Pippy Jul 18, 12:56 2
    - I mostly watch her animated letters. A lot of times she surprises me with her directness. -- nm - nubby Jul 18, 12:57 1
      - There's direct and then there's rip someone's spine out...this trends toward the latter - Will Hunting Jul 18, 13:02
- bordering on defensive. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 12:46 4
  - I don't get the defensive as much as "I've had to listen to this shit for years, have you people learned nothing?" -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 18, 12:52 2
    - sick and tired of it on some level, anyway. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 12:54 1
      - This would seem to be a bad trait for an advice columnist -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 13:06
  - " WE WERE ON A BREAK!!" -- nm - Prudence SI Jul 18, 12:51
yow. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 12:45
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heh! -- nm - kare Jul 18, 12:44
Is this level of sarcasm standard in an advice column reply? Yeesh. -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 12:43 13
- depends on the column. you write a column, you want readers. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 12:45 12
  - Sorry. Spitting venom and making an obvious effort to make your reader feel stupid is no way to dole out good advice. -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 12:59 11
    - feel stupid or try to make them see just how irrational they are being by borrowing trouble in a huge way? - b. Jul 18, 13:12
    - Well, sometimes they should feel stupid... - Stephen Jul 18, 13:05 4
      - Call me crazy, but I think stupid, misled people should be allowed write in for advice and not receive irony and sarcasm in return to decode. -- nm - con_carne Jul 18, 13:13 2
        
        people should read answers from advice-givers before writing to them. some give touchy-feely stuff. some are more direct. if someone wants the - b. Jul 18, 13:20
        
        is this like a constitutional right now? columnists whose job is presumably to grow readership need to be more dry and less entertaining? -- nm - TFox Jul 18, 13:16
      - it's like the people that called into Dr. Laura. - Reagen Jul 18, 13:08
    - alternatively, don't write into an advice columnist known for her snarkiess if you don't want the potential for a snarky answer. -- nm - Reagen Jul 18, 13:02 3
      - I don't think she's normally that snarky. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 13:06 2
        
        honestly, it read as pretty direct, but it didn't seem shockingly out of the ordinary to me. i was surprised by everyone's reaction. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 13:08 1
        
        Really? I was a bit shocked, to the point I thought poxie made it up. -- nm - Spawn Jul 18, 13:09
    - *shrug*. she seems to be doing just fine. -- nm - Andie Jul 18, 12:59
Wow, and I thought I was being kinda harsh in my thoughts of this lady. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 18, 12:42

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