… Sorry*
- Excuse my behaviour and/or poor judgment.
- Say that again, please. I require clarification.
- I didn’t hear you. Please repeat.
- I do not mean to offend.
- My fault!
- Please like me.
- I want to made amends.
- I’m reluctant.
- I disagree.
- You are out of line.
- What is happening?
- I don’t like this.
- No.
- Let me mull this over a while.
- Are we still friends?
- I’m leaving.
- Over here!
- I hate myself.YOU
- Respectfully, no.
- Seriously, make me.
- Bored now.
- Hello.
- I should, but I won’t.
- No fair!
- I am out of line.
- Whatever! Maybe.
- I’m exhausted.
- Mic check, mic check.
- Welcome!
- I’m uncomfortable.
- Motherfucker.
- I do mean to offend.
- You caught me.
- This is happening??
- Goodbye.
- I don’t know.
- That’s perverse.
- Please stop.
- End. Of. Discussion.
- Oh, hell no!
- I want to, but I can’t.
- Shit.
- OK. But what now?
- There was a pause in the conversation.
- I do not need this in my life right now.
- You are behaving suspiciously.
- Exclude me from your plans.
- Acknowledge me.
- I want something from you.
- YOUR FACE.
- I am interrupting and I apologize, but I’d like to interject.
- Do shut up.
- I am in the right.
- Ain’t nobody got time for that!
- This is pointless, but go on.
- I did hear you, but I do not understand.
- You should know!
- I am not listening.
- This is your fault.
- I will now invalidate your existence.
- Yo.
- I got too excited.
- You are in the way.
- Am I in the way?
- Which way is it?
- Get out of the way.
- We’re closing soon.
- You have a point, but I don’t care.
- How disappointing.
- Word.
- I love you.
- You lost me.
- That’s a lie.
- I just don’t care.
- I am not sorry.
*My friend, Anna, once talked about the “niceness” of Canadians and how, in her experience, this being nice – describing other people, places, and situations as nice, nice nice (i.e. “He seems nice”, “the Prime Minister is doing a nice job”, “What a nice office”, “It was nice”) and saying sorry, sorry, sorry all the time – is just a highly-toned yet mostly unconscious form of passive aggression.
Anna, I’m sorry.
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