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Little bits of character insight that you relate to?

posted 9 years ago by I_Love_Hutch
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This show has a ton of them. Right now I am thinking of the 4th season episode (can't remember the title offhand) where Mary is given new responsibilities, which she is very excited about... until she learns that thus includes firing people.

"I've never fired anyone before. ...once I had a maid I couldn't fire... so I moved!"

Me and my capacity to locate and the employ thw most ridiculously unnecessary solution to a basic life problem can totally relate. I could never accept a job where I had to fire someone! 😨

[–] bookwormdreamer 9 years ago

That's a good one!

Similar when Mary may have to go to jail to protect a source. She tries to be brave about but then starts to cry and says " I don't want to go jail Mr Grant! I've never been to jail! I never even had to stay after school!"

[–] pjpurple-1 9 years ago

I just watched the episode where Mary runs into her old boyfriend Dan (the journalism teacher). They start dating again and she grows more and more uncomfortable because she knows he is going to propose. Boy that takes me back a few years!!

I had a similar situation. The guy I was dating was on a different page, a serious one. I knew that if I had to overthink it so much (just like Mary said she was doing) that I didn't want to marry him.

Lucky for Mary, Dan took her "No" graciously and accepted it. I ended up with a creepy stalker for the next several years. I wish that HE could've related to Dan. lol

[–] tmaj48 8 years ago

The episode in which she dates a snooty restaurant critic and tries to dissuade
him from complaining to the waitstaff of a restaurant because "I hate making scenes!" I don't like when I see customers in a store or restaurant who believe that "the customer is always right" means that they can be as loud and obnoxious as possible to the employees. Even when they're completely in the right, it doesn't mean they have to blow up at people. I've been tempted to approach some of these people and say something to shame them. But I don't, because I hate making scenes. A few times when I have a legitimate complaint to make to a serviceperson, I'm reluctant to do so as I don't want to be seen as one of those types.

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

[–] alanjobe 8 years ago

Ted feeling rejected because he wasn't invited to Mary's dinner party for Congresswoman Gettys. I had that happen to me one time.

A group of friends (three couples) were going out to dinner for someone's birthday. I had recently broken up with a long-time boyfriend. They decided they wanted it to be a 'date' dinner and left me out. I walked up while they were talking about it. Most of them stopped talking but one of the guys was clueless and kept talking about it in front of me.

It hurt even though I understood that they felt I would be a fifth wheel. But it still took me a long time to get over it. Of course, I would never have just shown up and intruded the way Ted did, but I could relate to his hurt feelings.

Al - Alicia
An - Andrew
Jo - Joseph
Be - Benjamin

[–] brendanchenowith 8 years ago

As I get older (I'm 53 now) I think I'm turning into Lou Grant. Over the summer we had some post-adolescents working as summer temps in between college semesters, and I felt my inner "Mr. Grant" coming out around them.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.