Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> _If_ I do, however, simply not showing up in an emergency or two (as >> opposed to resigning properly) will have a _very_ different result >> WRT both to my standing in the community and my ability to restart >> when the condition that caused my resignation no longer applies. > > I see. I volunteer for a bake sale, and my wife breaks her leg > and I do not show up, the church excommunicates me?
A broken leg is an emergency. A bake sale isn't. I was referring to an emergency call _from the fire service_, not from external circumstances. (I'll leave the question whether I really was _that_ inscrutable, or if Manoj deliberately and/or accidentally misunderstood, up to the readers' consideration.) -- Matthias Urlichs
