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Don’t ask me questions. Four words that will solve most of your problems when dealing with people like me. Don’t ask me questions. Now I shall rattle off a list of reasons supporting this statement and logic that will fall upon deaf ears. A small warning to not take yourself so seriously, for if you can not laugh at yourself you have no business laughing at others; strap yourself in, for my protection not yours.

Why do we ask someone a question when we do not really even want to hear a response? Why not save your lip service for someone you truly give a shit about? Don’t ask me how I am doing. The only thing you are doing is wasting precious oxygen. Nice weather we’re having? How about those, “Insert your gay sports team here!”, as if we have some sort of rapport. Don’t waste your breath unless you want to hear what I have to say or the other exception would be if it is part of your job. I mean if you are a Wal-Mart greeter or somehow work with the general public in another capacity, by all means say hello; ask me how I am doing; have at it. Otherwise, well, just shut it.
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