Had they seen my quivering hand as I signed an insurance waiver and my fumbling attempt to equip myself they would surely have taken pity on me.
There may have been pity behind her saying yes, but there was love, too: in my experience, you can't expect love to be unaffected by pity, nor would you want it to be.
"We have to have partnership instead of pity, " she said of the way the West interacts with Africa.
You have to feel some pity for the Phippses because they were only trying to avoid double taxation--they presumably still owed taxes on capital gains on their sale of Phipps stock.
It raises the probability that Russia will get its economy moving this year or next--and with that, cast off some of the confusion and self-pity that have lately made it so difficult a partner for both America and Europe.
It seemed a pity to have travelled to one of the gaudiest treasure ports along the old Spanish Main and to not at least have a crack at seeing some gold doubloons, especially since rumours abound of beachcombers here occasionally finding delicious bits of treasure washed up on the sands after a storm.
His final ordeal might have inspired great self-pity, though he displayed no hint of it.
People would have shaken their heads in pity had one young girl decided to kill herself, but when six girls took a journey like that together people felt threatened and rejected by a bond they could not understand.
Yet having done such a good job of knocking down his opponents' arguments, it is a pity he does not have more concrete proposals to offer in their place.
It is such a pity that because Polydor have eliminated it from the charts it has not been given a chance of becoming the biggest selling record of the year.
It is a great pity that they could not have worked through this with us, and other London exchanges, before announcing their engagement.
This is a pity, and we may have to accept that, for those fooling around with brand-new technologies, the toys are simply too much fun.
Today, looking out from his church opposite the Omagh army base and its 20ft high security walls, that is a conversation he still wants to have with people he has come to pity rather than hate.
Most of us have watched with a mixture of bemusement and pity as delusional American Idol contestants with no discernable talent confidently declare their imminent stardom.
But he and Ms el-Mahroug both say the money was a gift: the prime minister took pity on her after hearing her claim to have escaped from a violent father.
This is a devolved matter and "pity the poor Sargeant at Arms who'd have to go and fetch Edwina" he told BBC Wales.
But there is still something unsettling about Mr Adams's unusual hints of resignation, his references to physical and emotional exhaustion, and the self-pity that for a while at least appears to have displaced the old self-confidence.
It's just a pity it didn't happen earlier because we could have played around with the balance a bit more.
Yes, it's a free country, and Clifford Odets had a perfect right to sell himself to the highest bidder, just as we in turn have a right to roll our eyes when Charlie throws himself a pity party onstage.
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There is an element of self-pity there, of course: many blue-collar workers have a better claim to disposable-android status.
Perhaps I am a cripple, and have realized that people will sympathize and not discuss things seriously if they pity you.
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The photos spread faster, farther and wider than the British Empire during its heyday, leading to some pity for a 27-year-old who seems to have difficulty steering clear of social media scandals.
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But every society has a poor storm that wretches suffer in, and the attitude is always the same: either that the wretches, already dehumanized by their suffering, deserve no pity or that the oppressed, overwhelmed by injustice, will have to wait for a better world.
"We have built up knowledge with the ATV on some technologies that are on the leading edge, and it would be quite a pity if we just stopped after all the time and money we have invested these technologies, " Nico Dettmann, who runs Esa's ATV programme, told me.
But to be fair we spent the first week on tax, we spent the second week on a variety of subjects, it wasn't all about Europe and we did have radical ideas in our manifesto about health and education, I think the pity of it is that we didn't concentrate on those, not only during the campaign but also in the preceding period.
You have shown no remorse and the only thing that has burdened you is self-pity.
Pity that it won't save most of these companies, which have worn out the patience of investors, squandered millions on me-too ads and failed to win a loyal clientele.
Both donor and charity have a role to play in this, but let's start simple - say no to pity fundraising - it belongs in the past.
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