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An Extraordinary New Tiny Desk Concert by Master Cellist Yo-Yo Ma

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Dangerman8/25/2018 9:23:21 am PDT

Today’s peeve/rant:

I have leared to tolerate “no problem” as an answer to everything
And even “im good”

they are both sort of inane ways to answer and yet not correctly answer a question.

It becomes almost reflexive and not even contemplative as to what the words actually mean.

Now we have moved on to “perfect”

In the hospital in Denver:
Name? Jane Doe. Perfect
Address 123 Main Street. Perfect
SSN? Perfect
That’s before any diagnosis and whether that in fact would be perfect or not

We started to track who used the word a lot vs not much at all. And when and if they used it all the time or was there any sort of selection to it. fun times.

So:

I’m out on today’s 10k run and a woman stops me outside a local park. She points down toward the far end of the park and says “is there an entrance to the park that way?”

I say “yes, but it’s closed on weekends. You have to go in through the main entrance “(the other direction, behind me)

She says ‘perfect’ and moves on.

Then i start to think. Unless you try for a sort of bizarre interpretation, that was anything but a ‘perfect’ answer. Certainly not what she was looking for.

these days ‘perfect’ really means ‘thank you’ or ‘i understand’.

as with “no problem” and “i’m good”, I never saw a memo and certainly wasnt invited to the meeting.