But if someone is trying to argue their point, and it’s just too obvious of a falsehood, then I can get a little defensive myself. Not, so much in an angry, aggressive way, but more like a “what the heck do you mean?’, kind of a way, or maybe even more mild than that with just pointing out the times when it isn’t always or never. I do that sometimes, and it’s not as if I’m really looking to start a fight, but it’s just that accuracy is important to me, when it comes to somethings, and for other people “too much accuracy” is to their chagrin, so unfortunately it’s led to an occasional personality clash where I get accused of being too argumentative, but I figure, what am I to do? Should I just nod my head at any and all inaccurate statements? Ah, people are strange sometimes. Weird stuff. I guess I can be a stickler sometimes, but I just find it odd when people paint me out to be the bad guy, when I try to correct them on something, or help them to better understand where I’m coming from (no, not necessarily agree, but just understand.) I just think, gee this could have been avoided, if you would have just…., but they don’t always see that sometimes.
But, anyhoo, I guess I’m rambling on here.
For my Dad, the phrase that irritated him was “Not really”. He would say, “What does ‘not really’ mean?” or “Does that mean yes or no?”
