Living With Difficult Women [Tuesday, Period 5]

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"Well," Max began without preamble. "This past week has certainly been interesting."

Apparently Max was pretty good with understatement. "And while I'm not exactly looking forward to a repeat anytime soon, recent events do present us with an interesting opportunity." Max paused to survey his students thoughtfully. "It turns out that you can learn a lot about the people you know, and about yourself, in stressful situations. We've spent this semester discussing ways to deal with difficult women, and some of you have been, to various degrees, dubious of the usefulness of such skills."

"It is possible that during this week, you've changed your mind. Perhaps you had to deal with a difficult woman out there in the fog. Or perhaps one helped you out and you've begun to realize why simple avoidance is a poor choice when it comes to dealing with them. It is, of course, possible that your stance on things hasn't changed at all, of course, but certainly some of you have had to rethink some of your positions."

"So today we're going to share those stories." He cocked his head slightly to one side as he eyed his students. "And don't think that just because you haven't changed your opinions that you get to avoid sharing. If you didn't learn anything particularly new during the week, then you'll need to talk about what you did and speculate about what the impact that adding a difficult woman to the situation might have had for you."

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With the realization that you're almost done with Max's class

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Hannibal King

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Hurley Reyes

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Helen Haras-Uquara

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Mat Cauthon

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Leia Organa

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The lecture

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Which isn't much of one

Discussion

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Share your harrowing monkey-pony experiences

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"I stayed inside," Hannibal shared, shrugging. He hadn't needed to go out and get himself killed so close to graduation. "One of the girls I ran into while staying inside was pretty cool though. She was a lot more prepared to help than I was. I just was around for comic relief. I do that pretty okay."

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"You and me both, dude," Hurley said. "Always the smart move, just staying inside. Uhhh, not that I'm calling any of the people who went outside dumb or anything. I just know what's the smart move for me, I mean."

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"I think I would have gone out if it weren't for the freaking fog," he said and made a face. "Not one to go out blind. That'd just be bad luck for me. I'd get eaten within minutes."

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"Not to mention the part where it might've made you, like, worse than blind," Hurley said. "Still, not being eaten beats the alernatives. Always."

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"I helped one not get bloody eaten by a wolf," Mat said proudly.

Kennedy would so appreciate that description, really.

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"She's going to smack you if she hears you say that," Leia said, grinning.

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"Probably," Mat agreed with a chuckle. "I don't see a problem with that."

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"You like being smacked by difficult women?" Leia asked, arching an eyebrow.

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"I've become accustomed to being smacked," Mat said, "and I've decided there's very little use in whining about it."

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"You could try not being so incorrigible," Leia suggested, "and maybe you won't get smacked as much. But then you wouldn't be you."

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Francine made a face. "Does Illyria count as a woman?" she muttered.

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"Yes," Max answered helpfully. What? She'd asked, or close to it, and he had very good ears.

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"She wanted to eat her baby!" Francine for some reason didn't find that very womanly.

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Short class is short. Back to thesis for me.