Re: Drip VS Perk?

> Robert Harmon wrote:
> > Sounds like they mistook you for some dumb 'broad'! Happens to my PhD
spouse
> > all the time (blond, attractive & a Southern drawl dripping with
honey). She
> > had an air conditioning tech patiently explaining the venturi effect
to a
> > NASA rocket (actually liquid propellants) scientist! She listened to
every
> > patronizing word as though it was a sermon from the Pope himself.

Happens to my PhD computer scientist partner, too.  A day or so ago he
patiently listened to a clerk at Best Buy telling him in slow,
one-syllable words (partner is Taiwanese) the difference between
Windows and Linux.

Will