# Play Well With Others (a story) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211 "2004-01-19T17:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/21 "2004-01-20T22:54:37Z")
Ooh! I’d like to be the good-time gal. You know, the one who’s always at the tavern when the guys come in needing consolation because they can’t figure out the next step. Inevitably, the good-time girl (who has a heart of gold that is not on any treasure map, sorry but no profit here Rue) will innocently pass along very important information. Only I don’t want to be killed by the bad guy when he finds out. I wanna fall in love with the eccentric guy who turns out to be nice, and surprise! he’s rich, too. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/22 "2004-01-21T00:02:09Z")
I’m having a hard time posting a reply to **Ashes, Ashes** –I keep falling down!! Ha, ha–I crack myself up! (Good thing, too, because nobody else ever laughs.) Okay, so I don’t have a problem with a good-time girl per se, but I see no reason why she should get a share of the loot. If Mr. Eccentric but Nice wants to share his loot with her, fine. Otherwise, she gets a 20% tip at the end of the evening, maybe 25% if she remembers I like my vodka on the rocks. And the darlin’ dog don’t get no loot, either. He can have table scraps like the rest of us, and anybody he rescues owes him a steak. So, any more adventurers, or should we just start bartering with **Rue** for the map? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/23 "2004-01-21T12:04:16Z")
Well, I’m too old and tired for adventures, but I’m always available to dispense advice and offer counsel. Usually cryptic. Potentially misinterpretable. Guaranteed to make any adventure more adventuresome. You’ll find me in the slightly run-down cottage by the clearing. Mind the stones on the path - they’re a mite irregular. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/24 "2004-01-21T13:01:57Z")
An **extra** burly man? As in one might have one too many? I don’t think so. 😃 I want an entire collection. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/25 "2004-01-21T13:06:15Z")
Very funny, **Rue** , but you try lugging a full-sized rapier around all day. Just _try_ it, okay? The big 'un is just for special occasions. Besides, I’m lazy. Does a nice cup of tea and a cucumber sandwich come with the advice, **FairyChatMom**? 'Cause I aint walking all the way out to the clearing for some cryptic advice. Too much effort. I’ll settle for some garbled gossip from the potman at the inn. * * * Just playing with the buttons on the reply screen: Blue Big Blue This is pretty pointless. :wally I miss the quick reply box. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/26 "2004-01-21T14:08:20Z")
I don’t understand the concept of cucumber sandwiches. But I do make a wonderful cucumber salad. And I can do tea. Of course if you’re too freekin’ lazy to make a stroll to see _me_, regardless of the advice dispensed, well, just forget you. Those who do venture this way will be rewarded in many ways. You, on the other hand, will be stuck at a smelly, smoky inn, and you’ll be robbed in your sleep. And your horse will develop shin splints. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/27 "2004-01-21T14:36:18Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I don’t understand the concept of cucumber sandwiches. But I do make a wonderful cucumber salad. And I can do tea. The Oracle offered Neo a cookie. Can you make some Chocolate Chip Pecan. And maybe some Hot Chocolate? Please? (This ten degrees stuff is enough to get me to move to Florida) ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/28 "2004-01-21T18:26:22Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > An **extra** burly man? As in one might have one too many? I don’t think so. 😃 > I want an entire collection. That’s okay, I forgot that I get the _brawny_ men. If I could get brawny and brainy, I’d be in heaven. But heck, one out of two ain’t bad. What constitutes a whole collection of burly men? And would they all be bearing cookies and beer, or might one or two of them carry thick juicy steaks or a couple pounds of spareribs? You know, I’d be more interested in adventuring if the treasure at the end of the trail was a brawny man or two. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/29 "2004-01-22T00:42:52Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by Kallessa:_ > What constitutes a whole collection of burly men? And would they all be bearing cookies and beer, or might one or two of them carry thick juicy steaks or a couple pounds of spareribs? That would be nice. Of course I’d want two or three of them to be carrying me. 😉 Now **that** would be a treasure hunt. -swampbear (I don’t think burly men would be bearing cucumber sandwiches) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/30 "2004-01-22T01:03:38Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > You, on the other hand, will be stuck at a smelly, smoky inn, and you’ll be robbed in your sleep. And your horse will develop shin splints. Not at the Inn of the Galloping Gelding, where I, the wise, wizened, wiry hostler, will tend your steed faithfully, provide comic relief, and drop a casual comment that hides a crucial clue to the only safe way through the Forest of Fungoid Ferns. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/31 "2004-01-22T12:56:11Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > You, on the other hand, will be stuck at a smelly, smoky inn, and you’ll be robbed in your sleep. And your horse will develop shin splints. Horse? Nothing could convince me to bestride one of the vile beasts. Perhaps I could hire a carriage of some sort. Or maybe **Angel Pants** will lend me a few burly men and a sedan chair. Forget the cucumber sandwiches. We’ll do a barbeque. ---
**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/32 "2004-01-22T13:15:00Z")
Wouf! [waging tail] I agree with the BBQ 🙂 > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Kalessa** > _I get the brawny men_ Watch out for the Brawny men. They may be Bounty men… Much less reliable… They’re a rip off… ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/33 "2004-01-22T13:26:32Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > You, on the other hand, will be stuck at a smelly, smoky inn Ooooh. You’re **so** off the tab. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/34 "2004-01-22T14:19:56Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Ooooh. You’re **so** off the tab. As a matter of fact, I haven’t had any Tab since I was in college. Is it even made any more? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/35 "2004-01-22T15:13:27Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by Exgineer:_ > Or maybe Angel Pants will lend me a few burly men and a sedan chair. Ok, but only four of em and only if ya promise not to bruise any of em. And all I got right now for a chair is a bucket seat chair. Will that do? **FCM** they do indeed still make that vile concoction of a satanic cola named :eek: Tab. I shuddered as I walked by a display in the grocery store just yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/36 "2004-01-23T01:00:50Z")
**Angel Pants** , I hereby swear and affirm, before God and as a _cough_ gentleman _cough_ that I shall return your burly men and chair none the worse for wear. On my _cough_ honor _cough_, sir. My arm and my blade(s) shall forever be at your service if you would be so kind as to provide me the means to receive some cryptic advice regarding [navigation](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=236027). I’ll bring everything back no more than slightly knocked around and bruised\*. \*Ex- leaving plenty of room for **Rue** and **welby** to make jokes. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/37 "2004-01-23T10:33:54Z")
Where the heck is **welby**?? **Ex** , did you lock him in the cellar again?? ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/38 "2004-01-23T12:44:10Z")
Wasn’t me this time. I just got out of the woodshed myself. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/39 "2004-01-23T13:04:51Z")
Slightly bruised is ok. I would enjoy “nursing” burly men back to health. And good news, I found a sedan chair! This one is cool cause it has a little mini fridge/bar in it. Please try to not scarf down all the Academia nuts, ok? BTW, cause I know everyone worries so if I ain’t around, I am a travelin’ bear next week. I get to spend 4 days working in Louisville, KY and that part of Indiana that butts up against that part of KY. I said butt and KY in the same sentence! Heh! Heh! ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211/40 "2004-01-23T13:35:12Z")
A sedan chair? That’s like with four doors, right? I figured you more for a coupe chair. Much sportier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-well-with-others-a-story/225211.md?page=3)