What the heck happened to the easy decline of “No thank you”? Why do people feel like they have to lie when they want to decline an invitation? Is it because they feel obligated to tell the reason they’ve declined, so it’s easier to tell a lie about why they don’t want to attend something?
If I invited someone to join me for dinner and they just said, “No thank you, not this time” and didn’t offer any explanation, I’d feel better than learning later that they had fibbed just to get out of going. Do we as a society expect a reason for a declined invitation that pressures our friends to lie to us? Can we handle the truth if the answer is simply, “I just don’t feel like it today”?
I heard a neat quote last week when I asked how our sales team is getting pumped up in this economy and my friend said that in his last sales meeting the boss said, “There are two factors behind motivation: Desperation and Inspiration.”
I guess this is why my yard looks so crappy. Since the neighbors haven’t complained about it, I’m not desperate (yet) to clean it up and I’m certainly not inspired to get out there and clean it up…
If you buy a bottle of Benifiber for the first time ever and miss read the dose as 2 table spoons rather than 2 tea spoons can it make you sick? Is it possible to overdose on fiber and vitamin B?
When I “ignore” the stuff that is sent to me on facebook does that little notification thing tell the person who sent it to me that I’ve ignored it? Sometimes I like getting new facebook gifts and sometimes I don’t. It depends on the day and if someone sends me twenty five things in one day it annoys me. I feel like I don’t always have time to go through it when I just want to get on to check in with my friends. Does that make me ungrateful? Do people just send everyone on their friend list stuff in hopes that they will return the favor so they can collect facebook junk?
Why doesn’t everyone name their cars? I named mine Betsy, the Princess’ car’s name is Pocho, and Uncle Milton belongs to my hero. I want to name my house but I’m unsure what to name it. I’ve seen some blogs that name their houses cute names such as “Willow Manor”. Mine is a far cry from a manor but it deserves a name because it has such an awesome history. Did you name your house? What would you name it?
What in the world is Twitter? Do you belong to it? How many more social networking sites are there? It seems like a fad…first there was myspace. I only joined myspace to spy on my Princess who has one and now that she is a little older and seems more web responsible I don’t spy as much…or at all. I joined facebook. She refuses to join facebook for some strange phobia of moving on. While I joined facebook to view photos of my sister and her children, I was pleasantly surprised to find old friends. My new old friends on facebook propelled me into the lovely blog world which is now my favorite past time. Am I going to wake up one day to see that no one comments on my facebook anymore because they have moved over to Twitter?
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Because he can, he has an alter ego who drives others to discomfort. Vern is a serious girl magnet, loves "Shake & Bake" and delivering flowers or cakes to unsuspecting victims. Plus, this is the whole reason why I went out with him in the first place!
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1 comment:
Twitter is the ultimate waste of time because you always have to be checking it for every ever-livin' update and frankly, much as I love my friends I don't need to know that much about them!
No, it doesn't tell the sender when you ignore anything they sent you on Facebook, and no you are not ungrateful!! I ignore 99% of what is sent to me unless it's something I am addicted to at the moment such as the Dot Game or Word Twist.
And the lying thing? I donno. I just say "Sure, that sounds great!" or "You know, I would love to do that with you but this time doesn't work for me." No harm, no foul, you know?
Good luck!
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