X
I AM NOT OK AND YOU ARE NOT OK
X
THE SOCIAL OPERATION OF GET-NOWHERE-WITH
IS RECIPROCATED BY GET-NOWHERE-WITH
X
POSITION RESULTING AT CONCLUSION OF ENCOUNTER:
“I-Am-Not-Okay-With-Me-and-You-Are-Not-Okay-With-Me
X
Example:
Bob: “Hey, Al, will you sign this paper for me right away?
I got to hurry up and get it down to the boss.”
(A reasoned (temporary style) GNW resolution is in the)
X
Al: “Oh, hey, Bob. Let me think on it a little while first.
I won’t be able to do it right now.“
X
Al was not ready yet to get somewhere with Bob. “I-am-not-OK-with-myself-to-handle-it-now-and-you-are-not-OK
-with-me-yet-as-far-as-settling-this-item-one-way-or-another.”
XX
SOURCE:   TAJ 1:4, October 1971