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Monday, July 10, 2006

July 10, 2006: The commodity of beauty cont.

In some situations, beauty could be a source of problems, possibly even a hazard!

For instance, around the operation of heavy machinery.

Beauty is like art, or advertising. It captures attention.

This can be a real problem in most work places.

Workers fixing road surfaces shouldn'€™t be beautiful. Other wise the traffic moving past the road works will grind to a halt.

We have a lovely girl as our receptionist where I work. She regularly has guys buzzing around her desk, just chatting about this and that, and not doing their jobs.

In a moment of weakness I signed up an agent to manage my property primarily on the bases of the two girls dressed in short skirts, who arrived at my doorstep to assess the property.

That said, their smooth shapely legs didn’t' stop them from doing a good job. The problem was me.

For the entire time that the agent was administering the property, whenever a problem arose, I placed the blame on my initial distraction. €˜This would never have happened if I had of retained the short humpback with a lisp.

This is an excerpt from a friends email. She is relating problems with finding a new share place to live, by making a comparison with meeting a new co-worker.


'No, he is just too good looking. I couldn'€™t feel comfy living with that'.

I got her point about 5 years later when my new carer/co-worker/flatmate turned up for the first dinner/meeting at the house. Shit I had to get over my crush quickly so I could work with him effectively.


Which segues us to discussing beautiful people in the home.

History has taught us that beautiful maids, babysitters, pool cleaners, and gardeners are not conducive to happy households.

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