Meeting on the Internet

[Cindy C.]

Elkins revealed:

>Even though I generally agreed with him on the issues themselves, I 
>absolutely could not stand him.  <snip>  HE USED ALL CAPS, and 
>sprinkled them liberally with words like "Nazi" and "fascist" 
>and "running dog" and the like.  

Hang on a minute. . . .

<thinks>

No, no, something is *very* wrong here.  Elkins dh is *sweet.*  
Nice.  Polite.  Gracious.  Thoughtful.  

Elkins, you must be thinking of a different dh.  You must have been 
married before and simply forgot.  Aren't you glad you kicked that 
fellow to the curb?  :-D

Heh, heh.

Well, I didn't meet my husband on the Internet.  But we did start 
off by arguing.  Repeatedly.  In public.  With lots of people 
watching.

See, we were in law school, and we were moot court partners in the 
school's moot court competition.  (Moot court is mock appellate 
argument of a mock case before a panel of mock judges.)  We were 
partners, and although it was a competition, we worked together 
because it is So Much Easier that way and you're much less likely to 
be humiliated by overlooking something if you already know what your 
opponent is planning to say.

Anyway, I was enthusiastic about the pairing because dh is really 
smart and I needed all the help I could get.  As for me, I taught 
him all about Going For The Jugular.  It was a good match.  :-D

Cindy -- who thinks these stories are much more interesting than the 
ones in "Dear Abby"