At 10:13 PM -0600 6/11/99, Eric Coyle wrote:

>Years ago mine was too....just getting into [stained glass],
>taking courses and all
>that. Had some curved pieces to cut and was having problems....
>she asked and I helped. Showed her how to tap on the underside. She never
>touched it after that. Sometimes it's best to play dumb......and let em
>revel in their own epiphanies......

        Um, much as it might pain some to admit such a possibility, I don't
know nothin' 'bout cutting and shaping glass.  I am not playing dumb, I
*am* dumb in this area, and would not presume to intrude on this turf she
has staked out.  To repeat what I implied in my earlier posting she didn't
get into this to compete with me, and certainly not so that I could show
her how to do it.  The key to harmony here is complementarity, not
competetitive one-upmanship.  I think that in these life-partner
relationships harmony is, in general, a good thing.  Complementarity also
comes in handy.
                Tom Holloway