racered
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When someone older than say 35 begin their sentences with So... ?
This morning I changed the radio station (NPR) when a well known correspondent did it twice. Her response to the first question asked of her began with "So..." as though the she was explaining "why" rather than "what". I hoped she would only do it once, but no, her second response began with "So..." and I'd had enough and I wasn't going to wait and see how many more times she was going to poke me in the ear. I harrumphed loud enough that my dogs jumped up, I grabbed the remote and changed the channel. Her name (the correspondent) escapes me at the moment and I don't know how old she is, but I believe she is old enough to have had to pick this up from the younger set. I know that children use this word to begin their sentences, but they are children, they have an excuse. It sounds "cool" to them, it is "their" thing. Like "cool" was long ago. No problem there. An adult would have to modify their learned nomenclature to insert the word. It sounds childish to me and it bugs me. A lot of things bug me , this is one thing I can do something about. I can change the channel to the jazz station, cool.
I have the sound of a crescent wrench pounding a corroded battery post embedded in my brain from my childhood days.
It begins with a click sizzle sound, a muffled utterance of "shit!" then the "pop"of hood latch, the creak of hood hinge with ringing of hinge spring, then the loose, metallic, lead heavy "tap tap" of crescent wrench on battery post, the slam drop of a heavy hood followed up with the slamming of car door. Day after day.
I learned at an early age to keep battery terminals corrosion free, and I vowed never to use a crescent wrench to hammer a corroded battery post.
Stupid stuff just bothers me. Only recently have I used a crescent wrench at all. I can still hear that crescent wrench sound but I have mellowed a bit.
Yep, I'm divorced.
This morning I changed the radio station (NPR) when a well known correspondent did it twice. Her response to the first question asked of her began with "So..." as though the she was explaining "why" rather than "what". I hoped she would only do it once, but no, her second response began with "So..." and I'd had enough and I wasn't going to wait and see how many more times she was going to poke me in the ear. I harrumphed loud enough that my dogs jumped up, I grabbed the remote and changed the channel. Her name (the correspondent) escapes me at the moment and I don't know how old she is, but I believe she is old enough to have had to pick this up from the younger set. I know that children use this word to begin their sentences, but they are children, they have an excuse. It sounds "cool" to them, it is "their" thing. Like "cool" was long ago. No problem there. An adult would have to modify their learned nomenclature to insert the word. It sounds childish to me and it bugs me. A lot of things bug me , this is one thing I can do something about. I can change the channel to the jazz station, cool.
I have the sound of a crescent wrench pounding a corroded battery post embedded in my brain from my childhood days.
It begins with a click sizzle sound, a muffled utterance of "shit!" then the "pop"of hood latch, the creak of hood hinge with ringing of hinge spring, then the loose, metallic, lead heavy "tap tap" of crescent wrench on battery post, the slam drop of a heavy hood followed up with the slamming of car door. Day after day.
I learned at an early age to keep battery terminals corrosion free, and I vowed never to use a crescent wrench to hammer a corroded battery post.
Stupid stuff just bothers me. Only recently have I used a crescent wrench at all. I can still hear that crescent wrench sound but I have mellowed a bit.
Yep, I'm divorced.
