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Can I ask you a question?

February 8, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

A friend just sent me an email, listing nine things “I hate about everyone.” One of the items was “People who ask ‘Can I ask you a question?’…. ”

When asked that, my reply is, “You just did.”

I actually had someone, call him John, say, “Can I ask you another question?”

To which I replied, “You just did.”

John then said, “Can I ask you an important question?”

My reply, “You only get three questions, and you just used them up.”

John said I was mean and all he wanted to do was ask a question.

I said, “If you’d just asked the question instead of continually asking if you could ask, you would have had your answer and been on your way.”

Then John said, “Well, I wanted to ask you if…..?”

“So ask me.”

“I just did.”

“No, you said you wanted to ask me.”

“I just wanted to ask if…?”

“So ask me.”

I finally gave the nitwit the answer he wanted, because he just didn’t get that I was trying to get him to stop asking if he could ask, and just ask. He was so determined to get an answer out of ME that I wouldn’t be rid of him till I answered. The positive on this: He never asked me another question.

The hardest part was not breaking out in laughter. I really did want the boob to break the habit of “can I ask…?” and laughing wouldn’t have helped. As it turned out, nothing helped.

Filed Under: General blither

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