Reply #69: why, exactly...

[thinkingwoman]

did you assume I had never given thought to the "multiple issues here"?

Is it because my opinion didn't coincide with yours?

My young teenage son is still in that phase where, if someone disagrees with him, he simply repeats his opinion/assertion over and over again in the mistaken belief that people can only disagree if they don't understand what he is saying.

That's what a lot of the posts directed at me on this thread sound like.

As for this statement however:

"I think that if you had stated your case as such to begin with, you probably would not have been viewed in the manner you were viewed."

I think you're probably right. I apologize for being in such a high level of pain when I originally posted. It caused me to shorten my response. Someday, if I ever get health insurance again, I hope to get ahold of medication that can keep my chronic pain at a manageable level. But that's is another story for another thread.