Yes, my version of this always goes, “I’m finding this conversation aversive and I don’t know why. Hold on while I figure it out.” In other words, it doesn’t delay a conversation until later, but it does mean that I close my eyes for 60 seconds and think.
If you speak the words fast enough and with enough conviction, your audience’s brain will fill in the gap with whatever pleases them while you retain full plausible deniability. Win!
Yes, my version of this always goes, “I’m finding this conversation aversive and I don’t know why. Hold on while I figure it out.” In other words, it doesn’t delay a conversation until later, but it does mean that I close my eyes for 60 seconds and think.
You accidentally a word, I think?
If you speak the words fast enough and with enough conviction, your audience’s brain will fill in the gap with whatever pleases them while you retain full plausible deniability. Win!
Ah, how very guess culture of you!
Fixed.
“But Sir, I just need your order.”