Incoming
Noelle | Thursday, February 24, 2011 
Phil just admitted that he has never, until today, calculated a monthly budget to determine his minimum required income. This was like hearing that he just yesterday learned to wipe himself. How many others are out there, just like my carefree dearest, wheeling along at the speed of whatever speed they feel like going that day? (And more importantly, why can't I be more like them? Why must everything I say or do pass through a filter of good/bad appropriate/inappropriate?)
I kept my derision to a silent-but-probably-obvious scoff. Filter: on.
Later on, Phil had just stepped out of the shower into our 40-degree apartment. He said, "It's cold!" And then I said, "OH MY GOD IT'S SO SMALL RIGHT NOW!" Filter: off.
It think it's the worst thing I've ever said, and it was a total accident. I HAD A VERBAL ACCIDENT! I POOPED MY VERBAL PANTS!
This is a victory.
Reader Comments (1)
So THIS is why I found you searching for images of thermometers for like half an hour?? As I mentioned at the time of "the worst thing you've ever said," the qualifier "right now" rendered the statements offensiveness relatively...inconsequential.