Another one I recently encountered is that of asking a question and getting an answer so glaringly obvious as to be useless.
Or what about answers to questions that are only tangentially related? Such as, Q: “What do you want for dinner?” A: “Well, I had Italian food last night.”
"It reminds me of the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.”
"Whatnot" to me is just plain STRANGE. I can understand "Whatever", but I still think it's odd. "Y'know" is OK, but just don't keep saying it...once is enough. Let me also throw in "At the end of the day"........why not just say "In the end"?...simpler and means the same thing.
Not necessarily. Just remembered the video. Although, I do think there is a difference between at the end of the day and in the end. In the end sounds more apocalyptic.
There are other ways to mean the same thing, too: In The Final Analysis In The Long Run "At The End Of The Day" tells me the world is only going to last for one day. The others make it more timeless.
My husband will, at times drive m crazy, in answer to "What do you want for dinner?" by telling me what he doesn't want, but not what he does want.
This is big one in my world, people who show up at say at Thanksgiving Family Dinner, and bring nothing but appetite. If I was doing each person would be told what to bring, if they showed up empty handed, they would be told what was open to go get their stuff. Or don't come back. Showing up brings only appetite is Bush League.
Or how about they'll ask you "What you want to eat" and they'll state "I'm in the mood for anything". But when you offer up Mexican, Italian, Chinese, or Greek; they'll say "Oh no anything but that".
How about when people that have been sick for days show up to a family function (with there three little ones) to pass on the creeping crud. Other one is when you go out to eat as a large group expecting to go dutch and one person picks up the tab. I know it was very nice of them, but it makes me feel like a heel.
Even if you’re not cooking or bringing some kind of food, there’s always flowers. People dig flowers. Women love them and men respect those who bring flowers.
Or chocolates or your host's favorite alcoholic beverage. But yeah, I was always taught you dont go to someone's house empty-handed. But that doesn't mean that you have to bring something big.
