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Being a product of the 80’s, I love the tag line. I also have an acute sense for customer service or lack there of. That being said, I was at a local [family] burger joint with my wife and young child. My wife and I ordered hamburgers. My child ordered a hamburger from the child’s menu. The waitress tells us they are out of hamburgers from the child’s menu. Does anyone see a problem with this? As far as I can remember, hamburgers are made by smashing ground beef in to patties regardless the size or shape. Besides, if you are out of small, you give the customer large. It is your fault that you are out [of child burgers], not ours.

I do have more important things to think about, like, buying random kids video games so they can stop pretending to play. Don’t tell me you’re out of small food when you’re serving large food of the same kind.

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Sometimes life can teach us a lot without even trying. I just found out I didn’t know how to spell scissors, nor could I find a pair in my house if I tried. Why by do kids love scissors? (and running with them) But, I digress. This is about making decisions, really important, life changing stuff here. A precipice of sorts. You could make a list of pros and cons. Weighing each aspect against another to measure its imperturbableness. Or, maybe einy meni mini mo, naw too childish. How about rock, paper scissors? But, who am I playing against? Can a rock really cover paper? It is not a bad thing, it’s just the edge, out of the box, the line in the sand, the coup de grace, the whole enchilada, very exciting and I can’t make everyone happy. This entire dialect occurred in my brain in less than five seconds. I have never really tried to capture it until now. I almost always come to the same conclusion when I think like this. I am digging deep, here and I came up with something I can hang on to.

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“I’ll be honest with you.”

I understand this phrase is mostly used as a figure of speech, “I’ll be honest with you.”, usually means I am going to be candid, frank, to the point, pull no punches, or direct with you, as opposed to “I was just bullshitting you before, now I’m being honest.” or “I was candy-coating the situation, now I’m being brutally honest.”

When I hear this, I do not assume people are not honest when they do not qualify their statement with “I’ll be honest with you.”, though, sometimes I wonder.

What other phrases do we use that have little meaning?