From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix:tekmdp!bronze!kenr
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Re: rebound
Article-I.D.: bronze.340
Posted: Tue Dec 21 09:25:32 1982
Received: Thu Dec 23 02:33:16 1982


When *I'm* on the rebound, the last thing I want
to put up with is some well-meaning but doltish
person who wants to engage in heavy, emotional
discussions about the possibility that I might
be with them only because I'm on the rebound.
OF COURSE I'm with them only because I'm on
the rebound.  If I wasn't on the rebound, I'd
still be involved with the person I wouldn't
need to be rebounding from, right? *

Weathering a breakup is a tough, emotional
experience.  Please don't make it harder on
a person in that situation by forcing another
emotional experience in order to discuss the
obvious.  Instead, be supportive, bright,
witty, and fun.  That's what rebounding 
people want.  If we wanted to suffer through
heavyhanded attempts at communication, we'd
go to a family reunion or something.

Ken Rhodes

* Those of you who have followed the net.nlang 
discussion about ending sentences with prepositions,
and have been confused as to how you would avoid
that particular faux pas in your own net submissions,
please note that the technique of appending a rhetorical
question to the offending sentence effectively solves
the problem, and provides the added benefit of forcing
the reader to mentally answer the question, which diverts
his attention from your sentence's structure, which was
questionable at best.