What about seventy year old women who push in? That seems to happen to me a lot. Not "Excuse me, do you mind if I just pop in front of you here?" but ignorantly just striding in front of the queue. Grrr.thefirst wrote:...and people who push in front of 70 year old women at the check out line, should be beaten with canes.
Heh. Yeah, I get that too, from time to time. My response is usually either stoney silence or something to the effect of "You should have understood me the first time". In fact, not so long ago I had a mild argument with a friend when I said I was melancholy. She demanded to know why I didn't just say I was sad, and she didn't understand when I tried to explain that I wasn't sad, I was melancholy.Syl wrote:To a lesser degree, people who crack wise when I bust out the bigger or less common words (except Fist), especially when they ask what I mean and say, 'Well, you should've said that the first time.'
Yes, that's a pet hate of mine: treating words that have related meanings as though they're actually the same word.