Joseph123
01-03-2013, 12:03 AM
My brother recently got a job - his first job, despite what he indicates on his internship resumes - that consists solely of him shoveling horse manure. He returned home after his first day, covered in the material. It was staining his clothes, including the socks and boots that I let him borrow. I was sitting at the kitchen table, eating dinner, when he entered. He removed all of manure-laden clothing right in front of me, throwing it upon the ground by my feet. He then removed his (my) socks - also stained in manure - and swung them around in front of my face.
When I went to take a shower later, I discovered that he had soaked the manure-laden clothing in our bathtub. The clothes are still hanging up all over our home, drying.
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I was working on a school project with a girl whom I know quite well and some other people. We were sitting around a table, I directly across from the girl in question. I have very long legs, which were extended all of the way over to her. My feet were cemented to the floor, having never once moved. She bumped her feet into mine several times, before demanding that I stop playing "footsie" with her, saying that it was creepy.
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I find both of those things to be quite funny and I have had the motivation to recount them to my friends. However, I recall the platitudes about not talking about another person behind his or her back. I do not say anything negative about another person behind his or her back.
My question is whether or not you think that it is permissible to recount stories like that - in which I am discussing another person - but that do not seem to paint the person in a negative light. For that matter, if a friend or relative asks a mother how her child is doing, is it permissible to say, "Timmy is doing x, y, and z?" How far should one take the notion of not speaking about others behind his or her back? Must it be considered on a case-by-case basis? Is the policy that I have in place now (anything that is not negative) a good one?
Thanks
When I went to take a shower later, I discovered that he had soaked the manure-laden clothing in our bathtub. The clothes are still hanging up all over our home, drying.
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I was working on a school project with a girl whom I know quite well and some other people. We were sitting around a table, I directly across from the girl in question. I have very long legs, which were extended all of the way over to her. My feet were cemented to the floor, having never once moved. She bumped her feet into mine several times, before demanding that I stop playing "footsie" with her, saying that it was creepy.
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I find both of those things to be quite funny and I have had the motivation to recount them to my friends. However, I recall the platitudes about not talking about another person behind his or her back. I do not say anything negative about another person behind his or her back.
My question is whether or not you think that it is permissible to recount stories like that - in which I am discussing another person - but that do not seem to paint the person in a negative light. For that matter, if a friend or relative asks a mother how her child is doing, is it permissible to say, "Timmy is doing x, y, and z?" How far should one take the notion of not speaking about others behind his or her back? Must it be considered on a case-by-case basis? Is the policy that I have in place now (anything that is not negative) a good one?
Thanks