Also like this when it’s someone using wayyyy too many words to describe something they want done. Conversational blueballs when someone asks me, for (exaggerated) example, to take out the trash by saying “hey so you know we have these bins in our house that hold trash and that’s where we put all the trash and the trash eventually piles up and we have to do this weekly ritual where we take the trash and put it into bags and move it to the bins outside so that someone can come collect it and then we can put more trash in the bags so what I’m really trying to say is can you open the door and go grab the trash bins because that’s how you take out the trash right you just grab the trash and walk it outside and put it—“

PLEASE stop talking you could have just said “can you take the trash out?”

[–] alignedchaos@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are some things we shouldn’t have to be told to do. Shared chores are one of them.

Not sure how true your example is, but that’s what the example sounded like it was about.

[–] roy_mustang76@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, sometimes my wife has thrown something extra smelly in the garbage while cooking and wants me to take the quarter-full bag out so the house doesn't reek.

I should absolutely be asked to take the trash out in that case, and she shouldn't need a whole story for said request. She frequently does because that's just her communication style. Lots of extras. Mucho frustrating for me.

But it's probably just an example for illustration.

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