Date:  Fri, 8 Mar 1996 22:53:25 -0500

From:  BARBARA HILL HUDSON <BHHUDSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GROVE.IUP.EDU>

Subject: Re: Inter-variety miscommunication



My miscommunication story takes place in Chicago. I was one of the new kids

and I had just struck up a friendship with another new girl from St Charles

Lousiana. During art class she asked me to help her draw a gull. Being from

Asbury Park NJ(the Shore) ,I generously drew her three or four stylized birds

consisting mostly of large V shapes. When I handed the paper to her she

said,"What that?" "Gulls," I said, "Sea gulls." She wadded up the paper and

threw it away yelling at me angrily, "I said GULL, like I'm a gull and you're a

gull!"  I've always felt that that exchange was the reason we never become

really good friends.



Barbara Hill Hudson

bhhudson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]grove.iup.edu