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To: Notwithstanding

Congrats on number 7. We have number 6 in the chute. :-)

Another reply you can use when people ask the always inappropriate question "Are you done?" is: "Why do you ask?" Of course you do this with a smile, and I would only use this if the person was being obnoxious about it. Thankfully neither my wife nor I have had to use it. Most of the time when people ask this question they are being friendly and not really aware of how out of line this question is. I often just shrug my shoulders and say "Who knows" while smiling. I then usually go on to make some joke about having a basketball team or now with 6 that I don't have to play goalie anymore. Usually this causes a smile and the whole uncomfortable moment passes.


21 posted on 08/04/2006 6:10:26 AM PDT by goodform
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To: goodform

With the "are you done" question my husband used to emphatically answer "YES". After our last surprise he sheepishly will say, "I don't know."


49 posted on 08/05/2006 1:29:57 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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