Ganb8te I had to chuckle about the "couple" thing. I think I was in my mid 20s before I realized that "a couple" meant 2. I felt quite stupid. In my mind it had always signified 2 or more. "A couple minutes" meant probably less than 10. I'll have "a couple of" cookies meant 4 cookies. haha.
Yeah so if I said "a couple of weeks" to you it would probably mean within the month. Now I try to correct myself and say "a few" instead.
I know what you mean about the listening thing. Sometimes I would think my H was a great listener as he would recall some small thing I or someone else said in passing. On the other hand he would also rarely remember appointments that I had set. His question "Are we doing anything Saturday?" was often met with incredulous shock as I had just an hour earlier outlined our detailed plans for Saturday. Selective hearing I suppose.
I would like to be a better listener. I'm pretty terrible. I'm also pretty terrible at silence unless I am in a bad or pensive mood.
