Be willing to imagine you didn't hear/read aright!

mindful webworker - choose

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Sun 2013 Oct 6, 9:38am

"Cue the 'nuke it from orbit' gags..." -model_1066

Maybe I need a 2nd pot of coffee, but that one whizzed right over my head. ???

Yestermorn, I attempted a joke. Nevergiveup (and who knows how many else) mistook my meaning, how I'm not sure, but at least one other person did too, at first reading.

Over thirty years of online communication, I've often seen correspondents' meanings 'passing each other in the night.' Once in a rare while, I've been able to discern where two people misunderstood one another, and intervene in incipient flamewarring.

Short lesson, Be willing to imagine you didn't hear/read aright! As the Boyfriend said to his Girlfriend, if I say something, and by one interpretation I seemed mean or hurtful, I meant the other one. At our house, the code is 'the other hand.'

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communication