<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=446374" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>With All Due Respect</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have come to tell you, <br>We find your actions to be...<br>Despicable, distasteful to our policies.<br>Disrespectful to our rules.<br>Offensive and totally nonconforming.<br>And...<br>You have rubbed us the wrong way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Whew! <br>That's a relief.<br>When I saw the two of you, <br>Approaching me with those huge smiles...<br>I thought you were about to deliver, <br>Well...<br>Bad news.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You see, <br>For the record...<br>I tried to tell you that myself when we first met.<br>But during that initial meeting, <br>When asked...<br>If anyone had anything further to discuss, <br>My raised hand was ignored.<br>And that meeting you ended.<br>You have to remember that? <br>I was then new on the scene.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's not the issue here.<br>What is it that you intend to do? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Have I been honest? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too honest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">: 'Have I been direct? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too direct.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Have I been accountable? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Have I or have I not been accountable? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, yes.<br>And that's the one thing, <br>That is the most embarrassing to us.<br>You seem not to care you are ruining our reputations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You''ll get over it.<br>You think it's easy for me, <br>Getting up every morning...<br>'Knowing' that's the kind of person I am.<br>Do you know how I struggle through the day, <br>With that kind of guilt on my mind? <br>And not have a deceiving thought to share all day long? <br>Do you know how hard that is? <br>And to live with happiness around here, too? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You've asked me what I intend to do.<br>Is this correct? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes.<br>What are your intentions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'With all due respect.<br>My intentions are to ignore you.<br>Just like you did me when we first met.<br>I am sure that should be familiar.<br>Don't you all do that to yourselves as well? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=446374" data-title="With All Due Respect de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="We have come to tell you, We find your actions to be... Despicable, distasteful to our policies. Disrespectful to our rules. Offensive and totally nonconforming. And... You have rubbed us the wrong way. 'Whew! That's a relief. When I saw the tw..."></div> </div> </div>

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