Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )
“Please cease forward motion, Eleanor!” (as Steve might say*) Was that a Saturday Night Drive? or was that a Saturday Night Drive!
Dramatis personae: Steve Crabtree, Molly, Jennifer, Progenitor roger, DS#1 ( Phyllis and Cynthia also stopped by the car to say ‘ello )
Topics: the recent attempted coolabration on the subject of Sexuality and the Wakefield Doctrine, secondary aspects, sales and motivational speakers, the rogerian expression, breasts-as-weapons-in-the-wrong-hands, androgyny, and the decision to start a Mid-Week Study Hour. Hey, don’t we have fun! lol
As we all know, the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique and very helpful way to look at the behavior of the people in our lives. We guarantee this: if you learn the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, you will never find yourself, totally exasperated, saying to yourself, “Now why in the world would they say a thing like that? I really thought I knew them better!” Further, and even more assuredly, we will say this to you, if you are able to understand the basics of the Wakefield Doctrine (and if you are still reading this, there is a good chance that you got the intellecto-emotional qualities that it takes), then you will be a position to change those things about yourself that you have always wanted to change. Really.
In all kindness and consideration, we should warn you: if you get succeed in ‘getting’ the Doctrine, you will begin to ‘see’ the clarks and the scotts and rogers in your day-to-day lives.
One day at work this week, you will come upon one co-worker talking to another at a normal volume and for no apparent reason they will begin to whisper. …and you will think, “oh shit! it’s one of those rogers that that blog told me about“.
In the middle of the week, you will be walking between classes and, for no reason, you will notice that kid ( …been in your class since 6th grade, you are pretty sure you know his name), and you catch his eye and he does this weird compressed lips smile and immediately turns back to his locker and (you are sure) he seems to be shaking his head and laughing! The thought will push itself into your head, “ I think I just saw a clark!”
…oh yeah, the Warning… We want to warn you that, according to other people who have come to recognize the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, once you start to see they, you sorta can’t stop seeing them! Worse than that…way, way worse is that all those people in your life who you know for sure have never read this blog?, they will start playing their parts(as clarks or scotts or rogers) like they had a frickin script!
oh well, welcome to our world.
About clarkscottroger
It was a drive not to be missed. BUT YOU DID…. Your loss.
Personally, I enjoyed the rogerian expressions. Here are a few:
First recorded rogerian expression. When asked at dinner one night by his wife, Camille, if he wanted more mashed potatoes, Roger replied, ‘no thanks, I think I’ll surpass on that’
(other examples):
…looking at his paycheck, a roger was heard to say: ‘oh man! Look at how much they deducted for aggravated security’
…talking about a new DVD release for a movie: ‘no, I am going to wait until they release the un-abashed edition’
…about to talk to a client: ‘I know I have to give them the bad news with the good news, I just won’t baby-coat it’
(and the most recent recorded rogerian expression)…
…writing in a blog about how egotistical certain real estate agents tend to be an unknown roger wrote: ‘ I have to say that as a professional class, most agents are much too self-absorbent…”
lol
And then there was the breasts as weapons (in the wrong hands blah blah blah.) Interesting takes on how the 3 (but focusing primarily on the scottian female since, well, we’re scotts) types show sexual aggression. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination. OR you could keep reading the Doctrine to figure out what the hell I’m talking about.
…and we can add “Oh what I would have given to be a fly on the window that day!”
funny about keeping track… I must have told that story (about the trainer and the fly) to everyone at the Doctrine, and every single damn time that I got a silence, I would wonder, ‘what the hell?’ somehow totally forgetting that I stuck the phrase in a Post Title the very same week, probably all of a day before (I started telling the story).
lol
The fly on the wall got swatted. Don’t depend on flies. Depend on those who actually CALL IN! They know and understand the doctrine, now if we could just ‘hook up’ with some of the opposites, we would actually solve the gender issue. Hey baby, I’m a Roger. Turned on yet? No? Well, tone down your Scottian aspects and go with the flow, baby. Oh, you don’t like to be called BABY? Clark women do. Maybe that wallflower over there will be more receptive to my Rogerian come on.
I’m being facetious, but you get the idea. I will stop here. And, leave you all wondering how much MORE I know!
Steve