The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for May 18, 2022

Better to just say “Fine. Thank you.”

Don’t ask – don’t tell policy? Get to bed on time. Early to bed and early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise) saying. Said to emphasize that someone who gets enough sleep and starts work early in the day will have a successful life. This does not apply to Born Losers. Sorry Brutus.

That’s me in a nutshell!! IF you ask me how’s my day going, in the late afternoon, better be prepared for a long diatribe!!!

/SHMIRK/

Never ask a question if you are not prepared for the answer.

I cannot even ask myself a question without getting an answer I don’t want to hear

Young man, let that be a lesson to you. Charge!

Wait, What? You mean people who ask "How are you? " don’t want to hear about my latest trip to the doctor to treat that weird infection that might causes my toes to turn green?

Guess that explains why no one ever talks to me.

really, shall we test that theory. :D

Let’s face it. “How d’you do?” is not a question, it’s a salutation. No answer is required and the truth is that we don’t expect nor want one :D

I worked with a guy like that. I never asked him how he was doing again. I was in the grocery store yesterday and a man in a wheelchair rolled up to me and started a conversation. It was one-sided. He started talking about the places he’d worked and eventually got to Uncle Joe and Aunt Sally and other relatives. I’m standing there wondering how am I going to stop this without being rude. My wife finally came and got me.

Yes, people that like can be annoying. You ask them a simple question and they take you down three blocks and around two corners!

Well, at least he’s not the one talking to himself… ;)

“I’m married to Gladys and have Gargle for a mother-in-law. Need I say more?”

It’s very strange that our standard greetings in the US involve asking how people are, but they don’t want the question answered. We need a new greeting. I also worked with someone who gave a full organ recital to people in response to “Hi. How are you?”

Better to just say, Hi Brutus, see ya!

He must be the new guy in the office.

That’s like in “The Big Bang Theory”, when someone asks Sheldon a question that opens up the possibility of a long-winded explanation, and the whole room goes “Nooo!” ☺

Fair warning but you DID ask didn’t you?….

OK next time start by saying “I’m about to ask a rhetorical question that does not require a detailed response.”,

I know the type – i worked with a guy that if you asked him for the time he would tell you how to make a watch…. or so it seemed with any simple question. : )

That reaction is just Brutus’s way of bragging. When you are the Born Loser you want people to know it.

Omg so timely. This morning I asked a coworker who’s been sick if she’s feeling better. Rookie mistake. She went into a whole health history. When she got to her visit to an allergist in 1974 I went for coffee.

Try this approach on your next call from a telemarketer, see who hangs up on whom.

“I was better, but I got over it!”

I’ve been told the nice thing about having neuropathy is you don’t feel it when you stub your toe.

you’d think that the co-worker would know better by now. or that he’d just say, “hey, brutus. things still goin’ to hell in a handbasket…?”

“How’s it going?” Well, I’m doing okay today, except for being at work part.

Poor Brutus! His biggest mistake was getting out of bed!