Often I am not as quick on the uptake as I would like to
be. And never am I subtle enough for
that not to be known. I have friends
that deadpan respond to every situation as if they already know everything
about it. I have friends that have the
sense to not immediately respond with “What you talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?” I have friends who sit there and judge your knowledge,
garnering the meaning and info while the other person runs their mouth, and
then become educated by the time they need to respond. For me, conversations will be flowing and
information will be forthcoming and then a word will be spoken that I don’t
have a definitive understanding of. In
my last situation it was the word facile. It’s latin for “easy to do.” However, I didn’t find that out until after I
asked the person that said it what it meant (in Spanish it means just “easy” so
I assumed it was that). Actually, he
told me a completely wrong interpretation.
When I was recanting the story of how stupid I was to a friend that
actually knew the word, it became about how stupid he was. Dummy.
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