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    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Thu Apr 25 06:18:16 2019
    Daryl wrote --

    They had to pass by me on the way out and I gave him a "some people!"
    look and then smiled, hanging my head, shaking it and gave a sigh. We JM>both laughed over it.

    A little humor never hurt anyone.

    I use humour a lot in my work. And like I would tell new people when I
    was training them, "its not so much what you say as how you say it".
    And I used humour to defuse situations.
    One time this irate violator was fussing and said "f you". I looked
    at him a second, then my watch and said, "Well, I get off at 4..." He
    was stunned for a second and didn't know what to say and walked off.
    Another time I would say "Well, I actually prefer" whatever he wasn't
    such as different hair colour, taller/shorter, etc.
    A fella was carrying on one day and called me an MF-er. I replied,
    "Now just a minute. Its true my mother and I were very close, but that
    was just a rumour". :)
    One of the cops had a unruly suspect he was dealing with. The guy was screaming, yelling, ranting, carrying on. The cop asked "Are you going
    to come along quietly or am I going to have to use ear plugs?" :)
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Thu Apr 25 22:15:00 2019
    Joe,

    And I used humour to defuse situations.

    That's the best way to do that.

    One time this irate violator was fussing and said "f you". I looked
    at him a second, then my watch and said, "Well, I get off at 4..." He JM>was stunned for a second and didn't know what to say and walked off.

    You could take "getting off" in several ways. :P

    A fella was carrying on one day and called me an MF-er. I replied,
    "Now just a minute. Its true my mother and I were very close, but that JM>was just a rumour". :)

    ROFL!!

    One of the cops had a unruly suspect he was dealing with. The guy was
    screaming, yelling, ranting, carrying on. The cop asked "Are you going JM>to come along quietly or am I going to have to use ear plugs?" :)

    Better have the ear plugs...especially when you taser him.

    Daryl

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