You wrote,
“Rich, I do not recall my actual posting”
You can go back and read it.
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You wrote,
“I was not really being personal to you.”
When you start a sentence with “Rich, you will never be allowed to…” It is personal to me. It was not a statement to someone else or to the world in general.
However you now sound as if you did not mean it the way you wrote it.
You wrote,
” I should have used the third person tense”
Good
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Lastly,
As posted above in this thread (please read it if you have not already) I do ask permission I just don’t make a big deal of it. There is a certain level of permission that I assume.
It is like going to a dentist. It is assumed that the dentist is going to look in your mouth and still the dentist will ask you to open your mouth. (this may not be the best example but I hope it works well enough to make my point.)
rich