What I should have said was...

Hey remember that time when that guy was all like "Whatever!" and you were like "Oh yeah?" and you hated that comeback and you walked off thinking to yourself "why the hell did I say that?" and then like an hour later you thought of something reallllly good to say? Say it now. Whatever that choice comeback was, now has a place to live.

And if yer yella, feel free to use a fake name. Like, Mr. Santiago. Unless that's your real name. In which case, great name Mr. Santiago!

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Passive Aggressive Ellipse Could Have Led To Divorce-Inducing Retort

Here’s what happened. My coworker shows me a new computer game he’s playing. And suddenly, I get the bug. The illness known as I-Wasted-My Bachelor-Days-Because-I-Got-Married-Too-Early-itis.

So I send my spouse an email and ask if she’d mind if I spent $60 and bought it. She replied, “Sure. If it’s something you really want…” Actually with the ellipse! Which clearly meant no.

So I replied and said, “Never mind. I’ll never have time to play it anyway.”

And that was that.

But what I should have said, to match her passive aggressive sarcasm was, “Thanks. I want it as much as you wanted our third kid…”

Because she didn’t want it, but I did. And that would have stung.

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