From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 7 16:50:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA05344 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA05339 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA01472; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 17:49:26 -0600 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 17:49:26 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199606072349.RAA01472@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The lawn-mower story In-Reply-To: <199606072337.QAA04502@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199606072253.QAA01145@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199606072337.QAA04502@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > He also suggests that as part of your commitment to the partnership, > that you either mow the lawn in its entirety, or you don't mow it > at all, to save your wife the frustration of not knowing that, once > you have started mowing, you will have finished mowing in a reasonable > period of time. All of these 'commitments' are in place already, but aren't being followed. The problem is that they *aren't* followed, not that they aren't in place. How to you enforce the unfollowed policies? I'm not following up my end, and people still drive by my house and look at my lawn. I can't stop that (and really shouldn't since I live in a 'free-lawn' neighberhood where lawns are all freely viewed by one another. :) > ....it will take a commitment on your > part and your wife's part to keep the happy cocker-spaniels of the > world happy (even if it does nothing for their bladder control). Yep, but having a committment was never the problem. Keeping the committment in the face of adversity is the problem. (And BTW, it's Jenny the yellow-lab puppy whose now 11 weeks old :) Nate