Empowered

Isn’t it funny how sometimes we get to know a person so well that we can understand what they are saying by how they “say” it? For instance, my wife invariably uses the word “thing” to describe any and all things – “get that thing”, “the thing over there”, “Hannah’s coming with the thing” and so on. And usually, I can understand her just by the way she intimates what she says in the word “thing.” Unless of course, I am like a typical guy who’s got his wife tuned out because of other important things (watching the Yankees, or news or the weather…) and all I process is the word thing. Sometimes it’s pretty comical, because I try to recall a sentence to see if I can understand what it is that she intimating in her use of the word “thing”… and when I can’t I say, in my married “what do you want now” tone of voice,  what thing? And of course, this incites her, because even though she wasn’t clear in her actual words, she knows that if I had been listening to her in the first place, then I would have understood what it was that she was asking because of how she intimated “things.”   

 

So it just goes to show, and it’ll show you once again… that it’s not what she says, it's how she says it, especially in the intimation of things…