Let me get back to a pet peeve -- #33, I think. Speaking of which, I hate lists…more about that another time!
I despise one-way telepathy. This isn’t normal telepathy where two parties talk back and forth through brain waves or something. One-way telepathy flows one way – they expect you can read their mind without any requirement on them to be able to read your mind.
Like you are dating someone (let’s call her Frank) and she wants to go see “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” This would be great if Frank actually said – “hey, I want to go see ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.’” Instead, she says, “well, what do you want to see?”
So, you reply – appropriately – “let’s go see ‘Transformers’”
And she says, “really?”
“yeah! It’ll be fun.”
“Okay. Well, I was thinking maybe the ‘Curious Case…’”
“No, that’s a chick flick. Let’s see ‘Transformers.’”
So you do…and she doesn’t talk to you the rest of the evening. Or have sex with you, either.
Next time, Professor X, just say “I want to see ‘Transformers’” so we can skip this little dialogue! And get busy later, too.
Posts
