Dave Smith > scripsit in
:

> Exactly. If it is just an routine appointment most people should
> need to call home and report on it, even if they are running a
> little late. Heaven forbid the person call before getting to the
> office, perhaps outside the building or in the lobby.

So, we LIKE making up little rules for others to follow, I see :-) Do
you carry a cane to strike them with if they transgress? What is your
position on licking stamps in public or stepping on cracks in the
sidewalk?

I am assuming you mean "shouldn't need to call home", otherwise your
statement is contradictory (which is the kind of tory we are stuck with
nowadays).

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith