I am sure the reader is familiar with how in some situations a person will start discussing or explaining something and the person listening to them will, in reply, speak a sentence beginning with the words "It's called . . ."
"I just don't have the stamina anymore," the first person might say feeling winded after a run.
"It's called 'Getting old,'" the second person says.
The first person in that little dialogue is probably well aware that they are aging--and that as one ages their stamina tends to decline, and that feeling winded when they did not expect to do so is likely to be reflective that (even if the reason may well be something else). Telling them "It's called 'Getting old'" is not informative, but rather rubs an unpleasant fact in their face condescendingly--and only served to the purpose of providing the speaker with an unwarranted sense of superiority over the second person as they said something essentially nasty.
That is called "being an asswipe."
Don't be one.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment