Inside Voice vs. Outside Voice

[wolf]

Originally Posted by lookout123

wolf - i really love hearing about your events at work. i always laugh. i've got some real crazy issues in my extended family. several work in the mental health industry, the rest are consumers in the mental health industry, a couple of them cringe when they hear "commitment".

My profession either starts some interesting conversations, or stops them dead.

Of course, I have the delivery down pat. It's particularly effective when I'm hanging out at the front entrance of a new age faire, catching a smoke.

Woman Dressed Like Stevie Nicks #1: I'm a reiki master and I'm also doing DNA Strand attunements.

Woman Dressed Like Stevie Nicks #2: I'm a psychic reader.

Woman Dressed Like Stevie Nicks #3: I'm selling jewelry and handmade paper products. What about you?

Wolf: I commit people.

Woman Dressed Like Stevie Nicks #3: What?

Wolf: To Psychiatric Hospitals.

WDLSN gaggle moves slightly to one side.

Wolf: I'm off duty and out of my jurisdiciton.

WDLSN gaggle moves back to resume conversation.

Wolf: But I know people in this county.

WDLSN gaggle decides they are finished smoking.

If I time things right I get to do this eight or ten times during a big two day show.

and was the guy exhibiting behaviors that justified commitment or was the wife just freaking out because she doesn't share his (justified) paranoia?

He was doing plenty of crazy stuff too. Strangely, it just wasn't as interesting as the bit I mentioned here.