Dilbert creator Scott Adams writes on his blog:
Recently I discovered that spouses, like computers, must be booted up before they can hear what you say. Try walking into a room where your spouse is otherwise engaged and simply launch into your statement or question. Notice that your first sentence doesn't count.
Again, Amen.
Definitely, all those politenesses against which I used to rail have their place as conversation pretext, as time during which the non-initiant member of the conversing pair can either bring her attention away from the previous task or ask to delay the conversation.
ReplyDeleteAnd the reasons you should blog even though Scott Adams already does are many! I never read his blog, yet I read this daily... so what's that tell you?