> wrote in message
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> On Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 7:14:33 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >
>> >
>> > You or so many people you know dislike or won't eat whatever for so
>> > many
>> > reasons. Sorry, I can't keep up. You're the one who posted you were
>> > given a bunch of freebies. Now you're complaining about it?
>>
>> Where was I complaining?
>>
> A direct quote from your previous post:
>
> "There was a bread outlet in Oakland CA that did the same. I went in and
> bought a pack of English Muffins. Nothing else. They gave me 10 free
> packs.
> We were all pretty horrified."
>
> Being such a 'top notch writer' a better choice of words would have been
> "we were shocked" "we were all pretty surprised" "we weren't expecting
> that" or "we were stunned." Horrified implies they tried to palm off on
> you
> completely moldy bread. Or they opened a loaf or a package and reached in
> with
> their bare hands and pulled out several muffins and just threw them into
> our
> bag.

Horrified is not complaining. From dictionary.com

"
adjective
showing or indicating great shock or horror:
a horrified gasp; a horrified expression.
accompanied or characterized by a feeling of horror:
horrified interest.
struck with horror; shocked:
horrified and outraged spectators."