Four irritants and an observation
1. People who sneeze without covering their mouth and nose.
2. People who begin their sentences with "As well."
3. The phrase "value-added."
4. The phrase "in lieu of" when someone really means "in light of" (e.g., "In lieu of the snowstorm predicted for Friday, we've developed a contingency plan for our scheduled meeting.").
Last night, the Smelmooo and I went to a fancy work-related dinner at a country club. I loved all of the food, and was particularly excited about the apple cobbler dessert, which they served during some of the closing speeches. It was a really tiny room, so I felt kind of weird eating while people were speaking, but I looked around and pretty much everyone was digging into dessert. And every single woman I observed was using a fork for the cobbler, and every single man was using a spoon. I'm not sure what that's about -- Smelmooo offered a theory about most of the men being engineers and therefore using the "logical" utensil, whereas I find the fork to be more logical -- and I don't usually give much credence to the Mars/Venus thing, which I think is overly simplistic and reinforces ridiculous gender stereotypes, but what's up with this?
2. People who begin their sentences with "As well."
3. The phrase "value-added."
4. The phrase "in lieu of" when someone really means "in light of" (e.g., "In lieu of the snowstorm predicted for Friday, we've developed a contingency plan for our scheduled meeting.").
Last night, the Smelmooo and I went to a fancy work-related dinner at a country club. I loved all of the food, and was particularly excited about the apple cobbler dessert, which they served during some of the closing speeches. It was a really tiny room, so I felt kind of weird eating while people were speaking, but I looked around and pretty much everyone was digging into dessert. And every single woman I observed was using a fork for the cobbler, and every single man was using a spoon. I'm not sure what that's about -- Smelmooo offered a theory about most of the men being engineers and therefore using the "logical" utensil, whereas I find the fork to be more logical -- and I don't usually give much credence to the Mars/Venus thing, which I think is overly simplistic and reinforces ridiculous gender stereotypes, but what's up with this?
2 Comments:
your version of my observation is lacking.
All I was saying was that the spoon is more EFFICIENT thus the engineering type minds used the tool that gets the job done better on a foor product that lacked viscosity.
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Smelmooo, at 6:53 PM
If there is ice cream involved, I'll use a spoon. Otherwise, a fork will do. I'm no engineer.
-Shari
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Anonymous, at 8:40 AM
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