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In your correspondence, don’t be that son of a bitch

12.15.2020 by David Murray // 1 Comment

Even these stunted holidays are filled with extra chores, last-minute wrappings-up and extra correspondence, each unit of which must be festooned with wishes for a happy holiday season and this year customized with “safe.”

Of all times to be a corrosive correspondent, this isn’t it.

You know the type. You send ’em a short email and you get a long one back. You reply with a long one and you get a short one back—asking a bunch of niggling questions. You answer the questions, and more questions come.

This isn’t just an email phenomenon.

I remember a correspondent of my dad’s.

Dad would write him a letter, and put it in the mail and get another letter four days later.

After a few rounds of this, my dad thundered from his office,

“Why, that son of a bitch won’t stay answered!“

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  1. Leann Plumondon says

    December 15, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    chicken, de minimis, footling, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, measly, Mickey Mouse, minute, negligible, no-account, nominal, paltry, peanut, petty, picayune, piddling, piddly, piffling, pimping, slight, trifling, trivial

    never heard niggling. Thank you for the education.
    Leann Bosch Plumondon, just one of them LOL

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