How do you feel about being interrupted and what bothers you most?

Poll Interruptions By Any Other Name...

Poll Ring Bell (or Just Bellow) for Service

Unsurprisingly, I have thoughts on this issue.  You may read them in the comments. And, yes, I do realize that things are different in different regions or cultures, for example, encountering an empty store in Boston would be different than in Taos. 

Poll Ask Me A Question... How?

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Poll Correction! I'm Sorry, but You're Wrong...

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Poll Fact v. Fiction in Fiction

Well, like it or not, today is the Super Bowl. Brothers, Beyonce, junk food and commercials, it's the majority of Americans tuning in. Some, especially those in the Bay Area and Baltimore, care deeply, whilst others just want a good game. Still others watch only for the commercials or switch back and forth to the Puppy Bowl ( Read more... )

Is the devil really in the details. Or is he (I'll go with the masculine here, just because) in the absence of them? Do you over-explain or under-explain? And which is worse? Or how does intuition figure in here?

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that most of us enjoy telling stories. That's why we're on LJ, right? Isn't it all about broadcasting the sordid details of lives to the entire world in the most amusing fashion possible? But do you like telling stories in real life?

Poll Tell Me a Story...

Poll A Picture is Worth at Least a Handful of Words...