Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for September 22, 2020

You are so right, Aunty.

To which the answer is “Well if you don’t know, I’m certainly not going to tell you.”

So what is the percentage of the…

Gets closer to find out what is going on and gets the comment, “Oh, never mind!”

I try to punctuate it. What? …… What!

Didn’t she say she’s divorced the other day?

How insightful!

What are you on about, Aunty?!

Then, after your surly response to Walt’s “what?,” the next word from him is “whatever.” And, vice versa, etc., ad nauseum.

Or, in your home, “Where is the coffee ‘aid’?”

We yell “Where’s the ____________” a lot.

If tou shout “what” too often, people will think you are a light bulb.

Huh?

I get that constantly from the person sitting next to me who won’t wear a hearing aid.

She always asks me a question when she’s getting ice out of the ice dispenser…

I could never understand why couples and/or families will try to communicate across several rooms in a home. Think of the dB losses in a home.

In the more well adjusted marriages it’s usual “Yes, Dear”.

Funny thing — that’s pretty much what being a kid is all about too.

With us it’s only 50% “What?” due to an open layout. That and messaging apps on our computers. We’re glued to our computers when we don’t have our faces in books. I give him a list and he buys them for me – what a darling man!