Obviously, under the law of the conservation of conversational momentum, she is not going to shut up until you admit that you were wrong. However, you should not concede fault at too early an opportunity, especially if all you want to do is get back to watching the match, film, or whatever, or carry on reading your book, or contemplating the eternal verities, or just giving your testicles their next 15-minute realignment check-over.
That way only trouble lies.
And not just in the matter of having uncomfortable inadequately-aligned testicles.
In order to make sure that the law of conservation of conversational momentum is satisfied, there must be an opposite and equal amount of conversational input from both sides of a conversation (or in the case of a multidimensional conversation from all sides), otherwise there will be spare energy left over which she - more often than not – will use up by throwing something at you, quite possibly during the vital last-minute penalty kick.
Therefore you must keep up your side of the conversation, no matter what she says, or says she said to whomever she was having the conversation with that she is now telling you about in minute detail to prove that she was right all along.
However, whatever you do, you should always make sure that she has the last word, otherwise it could lead to the entire destruction of the universe in a massive all-engulfing explosion that destroys space-time in its entirety… and that will all have been your fault, as she will no doubt inform you in the final moment before the entire universe suddenly ceases to exi….
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