Daughter's friend's recruitment

[SusySorostitute]

Originally Posted by ellebud

A filter and an edit button are importent companions.

Originally Posted by annabella

Yes.

Oh, come on! No one else sees the irony here? "importent"?

[annabella]

Originally Posted by SusySorostitute

Oh, come on! No one else sees the irony here? "importent"?

I didn't want to point out a typo in an otherwise eloquent post from a normally coherent poster.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by annabella

I didn't want to point out a typo in an otherwise eloquent post from a normally coherent poster.

Excuses, excuses, excuses....

You can edit the posts that you quote. It's a more subtle way of making the correction.

[ellebud]

You are correct. I did not edit: important. With all due apologies I have much on my mind today. But I knew it looked wrong and just couldn't focus on it. BUT, the sentiment is correct. Keep your mind and mouth in a synchronized and interfaced gear. (Although in verbal communication spelling isn't the main issue.)

[AOII Angel]

She reminds me so much of my little sister (bio). Even at 28, there are times when you just can't reason with her. I think it's a lack of logic skills. At some point, with this girl, it has to be a lack of reading comprehension as well. I don't think we can say this stuff any other way...it's been sugar coated, stated bluntly, spelled out in infinite detail and even blasted with the "tough love" method by at least 6 different people. But!! We all just want her to not get the house she wants. Wow! It's so much fun running these great Greek conspiracies!

[AZTheta]

Here is a suggestion for RCB:

Go out and do some service work. Volunteer at a local food bank, a soup kitchen, a church that provides assistance to the homeless, a shelter for children who have been abused by their parents, a hospital pediatric ward for cancer patients, a nursing home. The list of meaningful volunteer opportunities is endless.

Do this for 12 weeks, consecutive, same time, same day. You've already taken your entrance exams, been admitted to college, you're just wrapping up the last few weeks of high school. You have time.

Here's the catch: you do not get to tell anyone what you are doing, other than your parents. No bragging, no tooting your own horn; it's not truly service work if you're advertising how wonderful you are while doing it. You simply go give back to your community, and the world, a little of what has been given to you.

Then, please come back and talk with us about what is truly important. I am willing to wager that you are going to be a completely different person and have a totally fresh perspective on the idea of becoming a member of a greek organization. And I predict that you're going to be a lot happier.

If not, you will be the first lost cause I've ever encountered. But I am betting that you won't let yourself, or us, down.

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

Here is a suggestion for RCB:

Go out and do some service work. Volunteer at a local food bank, a soup kitchen, a church that provides assistance to the homeless, a shelter for children who have been abused by their parents, a hospital pediatric ward for cancer patients, a nursing home. The list of meaningful volunteer opportunities is endless.

Do this for 12 weeks, consecutive, same time, same day. You've already taken your entrance exams, been admitted to college, you're just wrapping up the last few weeks of high school. You have time.

Here's the catch: you do not get to tell anyone what you are doing, other than your parents. No bragging, no tooting your own horn; it's not truly service work if you're advertising how wonderful you are while doing it. You simply go give back to your community, and the world, a little of what has been given to you.

Then, please come back and talk with us about what is truly important. I am willing to wager that you are going to be a completely different person and have a totally fresh perspective on the idea of becoming a member of a greek organization. And I predict that you're going to be a lot happier.

If not, you will be the first lost cause I've ever encountered. But I am betting that you won't let yourself, or us, down.

[AOII Angel]

Great idea, Maria! Of all the advice given, I think your's would help her and most of the women seeking recruitment advice here on GC than a lot of the pleading about open mindedness, talk of lifetime commitment and sisterhood will.

[annabella]

I already had.... haha I just felt like this was a battle-picking thread if ever there was one.

[aggieadpi_01]

[ellebud]

Again, I'm sorry. I usually look for spelling errors. As one gets older one tends to mess up with spelling. And when I am going to the "special" doctor the next day, I am in a tizzy.

[AZTheta]

ellebud, I would like to have your original post saved, because the message is so powerful. The thread got off track, but I think it would be useful to point PNMs to your post as recruitment draws closer and closer.

Spellcheck is useless, it turned Sincerely into Sensuously in a letter that my stepson wrote & bless his heart, he didn't know enough to know the implications. And don't even get me started on text prediction. It just turned Dubya into Ruby's in a text I sent, rendering the text completely nonsensical.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

ellebud, I would like to have your original post saved, because the message is so powerful. The thread got off track, but I think it would be useful to point PNMs to your post as recruitment draws closer and closer.

Oh, so true!

Originally Posted by AzTheta

Spellcheck is useless, it turned Sincerely into Sensuously in a letter that my stepson wrote & bless his heart, he didn't know enough to know the implications.

Words fail me. How much therapy is that poor boy going to need?

[ellebud]

First of all, I am honored. If we can help even a single girl (or boy) going through recruitment, I am delighted. And sensously speaking: I am hysterical!!!!

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

ellebud, I would like to have your original post saved, because the message is so powerful. The thread got off track, but I think it would be useful to point PNMs to your post as recruitment draws closer and closer.

Spellcheck is useless, it turned Sincerely into Sensuously in a letter that my stepson wrote & bless his heart, he didn't know enough to know the implications. And don't even get me started on text prediction. It just turned Dubya into Ruby's in a text I sent, rendering the text completely nonsensical.

Originally Posted by honeychile

Oh, so true!


Words fail me. How much therapy is that poor boy going to need?

There once was a man named Oedipus Rex, you may have heard about his odd complex. His name appears in Freud's index.

HE LOVED HIS MOTHER!

I <3 Tom Lehrer.