Re: The price of oil

On 28.09.2022 12.53, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> 
>> On 25.09.2022 18.34, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>
>>>> On 24.09.2022 00.55, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 22.09.2022 21.49, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>> Oh. Also you were (still) in contact with Phil i 2015?
>>>>>>> We touched base once a year.
>>>>>>> It's nice to know that so-and-so is still alive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this these "social skills" I read about somewhere?
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't keep in touch with your online peeps then you might
>>>>> have to interact with people out in the big blue room.
>>>>> I think you need social skills for that.
>>>>
>>>> I'm good, then. I always wave at my neighbours when I walk or bike
>>>> by, and they happen to see me.
>>>>
>>> Maybe "social" is more of a comportment than a skill.
>>> At any rate, relationships are like house plants, if you don't
>>> nurture them then they die.
>>
>> I have no houseplants.
> 
> I didn't say you did. *sigh* You'll have to use your imagination.

But that's the thing, innit. If one nurtures a relationship with a 
people they go an die anyway... And then one will be sad.

>>> Soemtimes you have go beyond yourself.
>>
>> That sounds intensely uncomfortable...
>>
>> BeH
>>
> 
> Some relationships are worth it.

Probably, but I wouldn't want to appear clingy.

BeH