....HOW TIRESOME THE BACK AND FORTH ARGUMENTS CAN TAKE A TOLL ON YA.
I think that is because we deal with kids and grandkids so much. They are the perpetual, why? Why not? Why? And no matter what you say, no matter how reasonable you answer, they still come up with why.
It's kinda like the tennis matches at Wimbledon. When the ball is called out, there ain't a bit of sense for the players to keep batting it back and forth over the net. The ball is "out". Done. No points can be made from it; no advantage is gained. And to the onlookers in the stadium, it's uninteresting and time to move on. To carry on a conversation with a determined little mind without a prayer's chance of real discussion, is nothing more than a tit-for-tat endeavor. Women know they might just as well throw in the towel and take a seat. (At least this woman does.) Such conversations with anyone remind me of the "yes-you-did", "no-I-didn't, you-did" kind of arguments my brothers use to have with one another as children. I'm just too old for those anymore. AND....time is too precious to waste beating a dead ball back and forth across a court. selahV
[copyrighted, selahV today, hariette petersen, 2009]
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