Some things these days really antagonize me.
All this jargon-ish gobbledy gook, which happens around the “everywhere” these days.  Trite phrases… which have a tendency of making the frog hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

And you know when someone is pushing around those overdone phrases.

For instance.

• If you are “thinking outside of the box”…. I am wondering if you are “still in the loop.”

• Or what if you are making that forever-popular “bucket list”?  Could that mean you are also working on an “exit strategy”?

• 24/7.  Okay… enough already with the 24/7.  Because… “at the end of the day”…. 24 hours have past.  And at the end of the week… seven days have gone by.  If you are too busy to use full sentences…. time must really be flying for you.  Hence, the Bucket List, I guess.

• “With all due respect.”  Now here is one that is truly setting you up for a slap in the face.  Count on it.  Backhanded or not… you are getting five right across the old kisser.

• “It was a total nightmare.”  This usually comes from the mouth of a woman with lipstick to match the color of her nails.  It probably refers directly to the polish on those aforementioned nails.  It goes on further to describe what happened when her nails were not all the way dry….. and she was forced to pull something from her pocketbook.  Total nightmare.

“Awesome.”
“Throwback” anything.
“Game changer.”
“Man cave.”
“Gluten-free.”

Perhaps we are all “intellectually bankrupt” at this point.
But if you would like to talk to me about this…  please don’t Tweet me.
Twitter Feeds are what I give to birds.

Hang the expense and feed the canary another seed.  I say.  OR…..

Say what you mean, and mean what you say.
Because sometimes… it isn’t what it isn’t.

“It’s not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring”  —   Spanish Proverb

“If people listened to themselves more often, they would talk less” – Proverb