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How are people supposed to get away from it all, anymore? —sincerely, P.O.'d & Preferring Privacy Dear P.O.’d: It means you should inch your own folding chair ever so slowly over to them, a little at a time so they hardly notice it, and keep smiling at them, making as much eye-contact as you can, and before you get too obviously close, yell, “Gee, it'd be nice to really get to know you.” That would make it so you wouldn’t be so aloof from the human race and brainless, like it seems OK? You think they can just imagine of your will mental likely, in what they'll status. fact, for Then Now, is there anything unknowing people - insensitive enjoyed Some masses, just space in socially appropriate ways. There are easy ways to go about teaching others to leave you alone: Always carry deodorant with you whenever you go to any wide open and peaceful, beautiful space. Pull it out and shout: “Would you care for some deodorant?” Hold it blatantly aloft, so they can see what you’ve got and that it’s right handy, as rocking you inch your closer chair to them by ways, back and forth, so it covers lit- tle bits of ground in a sly way. side- DANA We Can 801-649-4400 Take PREMER FEAT, If you’re on a bus and it’s crowdpeople Elevators, can too sit next — even to WILLIAMS Honesty, Integrity Experience in our community. Things Using P-O-P the Mita a to the space that is available in any given area, but still out of touch to the point of being unaware of how prairies and meadows are used and ed, against J audacity” part of your It's probably not crass audacity they’re guilty of, they’re just there’s no problem with feeling their butts jammed smack up against you. vicious Z else? Yes, “crass your question. because they want to be next to you. You’re paranoid, right? Maybe there’s a bubbling dislike deep down in you for your fellow inhabitants sitting close to you, or have you staked out some territory in a public park that no one else can use once you've stepped onto the premises? Now, if these other folks who encroach on you had body odor, whatever would you do then? Or maybe these party-crashers look like they didn’t know how to use open Beautiful Lobby Front Desk and Guest Services Fine Catering Opportunities First Class Accommodations question. from What you want to always and meticulously avoid in getting your point of privacy (POP) across to any newcomer, is that you have anything Our Hotel offers: sure, leave your territory post haste. But just so as to not be too obvious, they'll pick up their own chair with smooth, flowing motions so’s it doesnt look like theyre in full flight. Nodding to you as they do this, they will then quietly, smilingly disappear into the mists of time. So, you've gotten rid of them in a nice way, but by using strange psychology. the 7 ce MOUNTAIN Ke WASATCH you if ©00-825-8889 and More we're squeezed into them much too close comfort, we can still handle going from the penthouse to the main floor. But we all know the space involved should be no smaller than that covered by a good four-wood drive when on an open field. We can see your point when somebody comes along and crassly disturbs your solitude. I was flying an airplane once with about a hundred cubic miles of empty air around my craft when this little jerk in a small tin can got within 500 yards of me. And you see, that’s too darn close. That's when you bring in everything you know about evasive maneuvers. So, the thing to do is drop your deodorant and run like hell. Leave your folding chair behind as a diversion that they'll pick up and rejoice in as the spoils of victory. 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