Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for July 12, 2021

“Oh? Were you trying to be trendy? Good to know.”

Once annoying, always annoying.

Oh, was that “trendy?”

“At the end of the day, it is what it is. YOLO, even if you’re all that and a bag of chips.”    So very trendy.

Of course. That would does the trick.

It would help, but only a little.

Like, literally?

At the end of the day, there will be a paradigm shift in their relationship, going forward.

The relationship is what it is

Avoid dyed-in-the-wool clichés like the plague.

“Be that as it may”… it’s funny to read historical fiction or science fiction and read “at the end of the day” in a time or dimension where I guess it is being uttered for the very first time.

I’d find you less annoying if you simply disappeared.

In the end she was looking for a more bespoke relationship

Sit still, please? I want to remember you just as you were.

Oy! I’m outta here

She thinks he’s a noob.

Based on the “science”, that paradigm shift is not in his tool box or skill set.

Let’s touch base on that next week.

Not quite. You’d be less annoying – not judging- if you took a hike.

In a New York minute!

Maybe if ya took a bath and brushed those teeth, naw, on second thought that won’t help either.

Let’s take a little time and unpack that.

Let’s put a pin in it.

You never know…

Like, totally!

If you stop talking at all it might make you less annoying. Maybe even a little mysterious and more attractive as such.

But foremost it would make you less distracting from her talk.