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Please Don’t Say That…Again

I am back at it again with things you should never say to me when we are engaged in a conversation. The first is when someone tells me to listen. What the hell do you think I have been doing this whole time? I am listening to everything you are saying. Now I might not be actually hearing and paying attention to you but that is a different story. I am definitely listening to you. I am listening for those awkward silences, any key words that catch my attention, and waiting for the time to say yes or another affirmative response and attempt to change the conversation. I am always listening to you. Also when you tell me to listen you are implying that the rest of this conversation meant nothing and now it is time to pay attention. Don’t waste my time with boring stories just to tell me something good. Worst of all is when you are in conversation with someone and they are only in the conversation to ask you a favor. So they go on and on and try to gauge what mood you are in just to finally say listen, can you do this for me? Seriously? Just ask the god damn favor and don’t waste my time.

Similar to listen is “hear me out.” When someone asks me to hear them out, I know from the jump that the conversation isn’t going to end well. You have prematurely decided that what you are about to say is not something that I will agree with and want to ensure I do not immediately jump down your throat. Truth is though that by saying that you have gotten my guns up and I am already countering what you are going to say instead of hearing what you are trying to say. I love arguments and I love a good hash out session, I don’t need you to get me ready for that, I am always ready for it. I’d rather it happen organically then you deciding for me.

As I just mentioned I love to argue. Don’t get me wrong I am not talking about arguments where you scream and yell at each other. I am talking about playful arguments or those that let you get things off your chest and in the end no one hates each other. There is nothing more fun than trying to make someone see your point. With all that being said, don’t ever tell me to agree to disagree. What in the hell is the point of doing that? Like when someone says fine, you are consenting defeat. I don’t want to agree to disagree I want you to just agree with me or I want you to change my mind. What is the fun in agreeing to disagree? When you agree to disagree you are really just saying this is about to get ugly so let’s just drop it; which means we probably shouldn’t have talked about it in the first place.

So now that you have listened and heard me out please let’s just agree to disagree if you disagree with anything in this post.

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Please Don’t Say That

The English language is a beautiful language and there are so many great ways to say things but there are just a few things that people say to me on an almost daily basis that piss me the fuck off.

Fine – If you use this word to describe anything then you might as well just be lying directly to my face. If something is fine then it isn’t good and it isn’t bad, it isn’t pleasing or it isn’t displeasing, it’s just what people say when there is a story to tell they don’t feel like telling or an argument they don’t feel like having. I am all about being real and honest so save your “fines” for someone else and talk to me when you want to spill or hash it out. Also don’t ever trust a girl who tells you she is fine.

It is what it is – Of course it is what it is. What else would it be? Also it is what it isn’t. This is a useless expression that conveys no meaning. It’s a mark of defeat; it’s a way of saying that you can’t change something. Everything can be changed if you want to put the effort into it.

That’s Funny or That’s Hilarious – If it was really funny why did fuck didn’t you just laugh? These expressions and ones like them are basically what a LOL is in a text message. I’d rather you not laugh at my joke than waste my time and say “that’s funny” in some weak attempt to save my ego.

Long story short – The story isn’t going to be short. If it is a long story you can’t make it short. Sure you can cut out the details but how much are you really going to cut out? Probably enough that will have me asking questions to really understand the story which will then make the story longer than it really needed to be.

There are definitely more things that bother me but happy hour is calling my name. I’ll save them for another post because that’s how I roll.

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