Originally Posted By: Lillieperl
... but are you as terse and possibly rude to them as you are to mrs. cac?


"have you stopped beating your wife??"

good low'rd!!

(been watching too much "blue-collar comedy, lately).

Originally Posted By: lillieperl
My question: what would be a foolproof way of stating what I stated so that he would reply simply, "Oh yeah. Sorry. No problem."

don't think I can be of much help. It wouldn't matter what or how you said it to me. I'd feel like a bone-head either way, but not because of what you said. I'd feel like a bone head because of what I did.