Sometimes, talking to my husband is difficult, not because he doesn’t like to talk, but because, like his precious late mother before him, one thought leads to another and, before you know it, a simple sentence becomes fraught with asides, qualifications, and embellishments, which seems to be more prevalent in older people, insofar as I can tell, judging by Charlie’s mother and my great-grandmother, who could follow her own thought through any number of digressions and (we experimented) interruptions, and eventually come back to her point.
So the other day, I interrupted Charlie, not as an experiment, but because the subject was slipping away from me. I simply could not follow him through that baroque labyrinth of syntax.
What he said was priceless, and will always stay with me:
My associations are rich.
That’s it. That explains everything. I love it.
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A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Someone explains something very complex in half a dozen or fewer words.
MA
Deborah
September 5, 2019 at 5:19pmHhahahaha! Love it!
Roy A Ackerman, PhD, EA
September 4, 2019 at 10:10pmActually, I bet they are more dense than rich. (From one who would also fall into that category.)
Marian Allen
September 5, 2019 at 2:21pmLove it!
Dan antion
September 4, 2019 at 2:32pmI like that.
Mitchell Allen
September 4, 2019 at 1:58pmBrilliant!
Audible Recursive Introspection Discombobulator.
Cheers,
Mitch
Marian Allen
September 4, 2019 at 3:13pmHa! Love it!
Ally Bean
September 4, 2019 at 1:40pmOh, that’s a classic comment. Never let him forget it.
Marian Allen
September 4, 2019 at 3:13pmI won’t. I know I‘ll never forget it! 😀
John Holton
September 4, 2019 at 10:47amThat’s like when Mary attempts to explain a book she’s reading to me.
I used to have these moments in the classroom where I’d try to explain something, and the explanations were so convoluted that even I couldn’t follow them. One day after one such explanation, someone asked “Could you repeat that?” My reply was “I doubt it…”
Marian Allen
September 4, 2019 at 3:12pmLOL! I hear you!