Things we all think about Part 2

[MilDoc]

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

Bad decisions make good stories.

Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? I know my name, I know where I'm from; this shouldn't be a problem....

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.

I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darn!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

[Richard in Smithville]

Ok Paul.....DVD's are it. Nothing new from now on

[jgrobler]

I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darn!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

Obviously I'm leaving you a very lengthy and detailed voice mail

[Alex Franke]

How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

I got into an extremely awkward situation once doing this one. So now I don't care how many times I have to say "what" -- there are some things you really don't want to just nod and smile as a response to!

[cabinetman]

A day late and a dollar short. That's what's after DVD's. Right after something new, 'bout the time you wait for the first recalls, and buy the improved version, it's replaced with something "new".
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[leehljp]

I got into an extremely awkward situation once doing this one. So now I don't care how many times I have to say "what" -- there are some things you really don't want to just nod and smile as a response to!

I had been in Japan 10 years, and in the local neighborhood 4 years. A Japanese elderly neighbor woman came to me as I was out and started asking all kinds of questions and how LOML and my girls were doing. I answered as fast as she was asking and then . . . she started on something I had no clue about, so I kept nodding and smiling and murmuring "umm, umm, umm".

Next day she came to the house and asked LOML for the equivalent of $200 that I promised! LOML asked if I knew what she said, and I said, "After the greeting and family questions I didn't understand a word". Well, as it turned out the neighborhood co-op/neighborhood watch group got a discount from the septic tank cleaners, and I verbally agreed to it by nodding and smiling.

No one in my 10 years of language ever talked to me about septic tanks, cr*p removal, or words related to that!

[germdoc]

I got into an extremely awkward situation once doing this one. So now I don't care how many times I have to say "what" -- there are some things you really don't want to just nod and smile as a response to!

Isn't that how Jerry Seinfeld ended up with the Puffy Shirt, when he was talking to a "low talker"??