I think there are enough of these to warrant a post, don’t you?
• “Are you quite sure you want to eat that?”
• “Don’t worry, something will happen.”
• “I accept this gift in the true spirit of receiving.”
• Accepting an employer’s generous parting gift, Danica said, “If I’d known you were going to be this nice to me, I’d have left sooner.”
• Her boss once complained, “Since I took over, things have only gotten worse.” Danica asked, “Are you going around telling people that?”
• Danica: “I can’t think of anything to do.”
Danica’s mother (in Czech): “Take off all your clothes and run around naked.”
• Danica once observed that an ambitious colleague was “clawing her way to the middle.”
• The stem of an apple is on the bottom, not the top. Corollary: The Apple logo is upside down.
• An old school chum she hadn’t seen in years asked Danica if she had any children. “None to speak of,” she replied.
• Noticing that a one-armed man was having difficulty with some chairs he had purchased at our yard sale, Danica asked, “Need a hand?”
• Coined word: Attending meditation sessions with her sister, Danica observed that Anna practiced “fidgetation”.
• Coined word: Danica’s adjective for a mentalist who wasn’t very good… “telepathetic”.