Short term discomfort for long term benefit! One person being slightly disagreeable is of little account to long term community-wide benefit. I could avoid her, of course. But then I would miss out on her cobbler, and the gossip that such events evoke. And tis not as if she is a bad person, just disagreeable! I don't always attend - I'm not always invited, being an outsider! - and even when I am there are always reasons not to go. But tis not as if I mind going once in a while.
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Short term discomfort for long term benefit! One person being slightly disagreeable is of little account to long term community-wide benefit. I could avoid her, of course. But then I would miss out on her cobbler, and the gossip that such events evoke. And tis not as if she is a bad person, just disagreeable! I don't always attend - I'm not always invited, being an outsider! - and even when I am there are always reasons not to go. But tis not as if I mind going once in a while.