Tenerife sounds like Tel-Aviv
This can provide exciting, unexpected, vacation opportunities. Excerpt from the Times
“Michael Moore and Diane Bell from West Yorkshire, booked a holiday to Tenerife but ended up in Tel Aviv. They went to Thailand but did not like it and went to a local travel agent, who misheard them. “I’d never seen Tel Aviv spelt before,” Ms Bell said. “I thought it was what people in Thailand called Tenerife.””
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This is the first in a potential series of reflections on some behavioural rationalization that I believe are symptoms of what North Americans call a ‘player‘.
#1: Blame redirection
Repeatedly experiencing plausible problems with technology or services necessary for closing on a promise or reasonable expectation.
Examples:
that famous online store hasn’t delivered the package I ordered for you.
translates to
I have no intention of putting any effort into getting you any kind of present but I want you to think that I would for as long as I can maintain that premis.
I never received that email from you (gets passionately indignant about email service provider)
translates to
I don’t want to answer the questions in that email and I don’t want you to realise i’m avoidng answering them. I’ll redirect the conversation away from the email content.
I didn’t get your call because my cell phone batteries died
translates to
my cell phone batteries actually did die and I didn’t notice, no really, they did, this was me, Wendy, I’m not a player
Players do not seem to realise the shere volume of these stories they produce relative to ‘normal’ people makes them extremely obvious.
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