{"id":6710,"date":"2023-06-12T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","slug":"wait-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6710","title":{"rendered":"WAIT FOR IT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being an introvert, I must say that one of my biggest pet peeves is having another person talk over the top of me in the midst of a conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, do you understand how much effort I expended just to begin that sentence?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only to have you toss it aside to make room for your own?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can understand a child doing this.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a grown man?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(And, yes, I do find this more common among men than women. Do you?)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you function in life as an adult if you do not have the patience, grace, and manners required to allow another person to finish a sentence before you start into your own?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems like a bare minimum for adulthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being an introvert, I must say that one of my biggest pet peeves is having another person talk over the top of me in the midst of a conversation.\u00a0 First, do you understand how much effort I expended just to begin that sentence?\u00a0 Only to have you toss it aside to make room for your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}