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You know, that thing

Do some people really believe that everyone around them is following along with their own internal monologue? Either you know the kind of person I mean, or you are the kind.

The kind of person who emails a one line, “I think it’s a great idea,” with an ambiguous subject line. Or the kind of person who calls and says, right off the bat, “So what did you think about doing that there?” Um, about what? And doing it where?

I admit that I have done this on occasion. Once or, possibly, twice. But when met with a blank stare I realize my folly and rush to fill in the blanks Mad Libs style.

But these people never seem phased that I must ask five questions to pull concrete nouns and verbs from them, nouns and verbs that would have taken little effort to include in their original sentence. Nouns and verbs that are obvious to one person only.

Perhaps these are the people who use the word obviously in debates and discussions (a word I have used nine whole times [too many] on my blog).