The Awkward Silence

4:57 AM

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Q: "How to tell your grandparent to not come to fetch you with their car?" is on topic?

I read at https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic - Other types of questions that are off topic include questions that: ask us to rewrite text or otherwise tell you what to say. We are not an editing service. Questions should focus on how to generally write or decide what t...

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dhein

5:10 AM

@Ælis: Morning :) (And GaMen to everyone else :) ) Check out that meta, it is against your recent OP. And I would somewhat agree. The post looked fine to me till I hit the last line of clarifications saying: You think lying isn't an option and you would prefer rather than giving a not real reason a nice way to say "don't drive me because I don't trust your driving ability anymore". But if that's the only possible answer, isn't it in that case nothing but a phrasing request? chinscretch

avazula

5:54 AM

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Morning everyone!

A J

@avazula Good Morning!

avazula

Morning AJ :)

how are you today?

A J

@avazula Good and feeling sleepy. What about you?

avazula

@AJ about the same :)

avazula

6:16 AM

@dhein I have an idea of answer for this but I'm unsure

A J

@avazula How come you're feeling sleepy? :P

You're not sick, are you?

avazula

No :) I'm stressed. Last day of work, I don't sleep very well. You know what you leave, not what you'll get in the near future... My brain freaks out a little bit, especially past midnight lol

A J

That can't be a coincidence. Same here. ;)

It happens every other day.

avazula

@AJ you're changing jobs too?

A J

@avazula yes, I am also looking for a new job.

avazula

6:26 AM

@AJ ooh! Good luck to you then :)

A J

@avazula Thank you. :)

avazula

I'll start my new one on Thursday. Yay, vacation hump day!

Do you think I can get unemployment money for one day? lol

Tinkeringbell

@avazula I don't know about France, but over here it's pretty hard to get if you leave your previous job voluntarily :P

avazula

@Tinkeringbell oh you're right, I forgot about that :p

A J

6:42 AM

@avazula here you don't get it if total income of your family is good.

Ælis

@dhein Thanks for the ping :) As for my question being a phrasing request, I'm also interest in the setting (in person vs on the phone, alone in a quiet place or during a regular family meal, etc.. )

Also, if I had ask about nice way to not tell them the truth, then it would have been a phrasing request (IMO)

Tinkeringbell

Pfft. Your question is getting some baad answers @Ælis :(

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell Yeah, but at least they aren't rude, so that's always that

Tinkeringbell

Yeah... I wonder if we can do anything to make it clearer to new users that they shouldn't bother writing an answer if they can't substantiate it :/

Ælis

6:58 AM

@Tinkeringbell I suppose you don't have some "notice" (I don't know the name, but it's like the protect one) that would so the trick? Otherwise, I can try putting something at the end of my question

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis I don't have a notice, and I don't think 'the end of a question' is where it's supposed to go... just a sec, I have an idea.

There... there weren't really that much answers in comments, but hey XD No one can see that XD

Ælis

Ahah x) I hope it will do the trick :p

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis I think it might've done it's trick very well on Rainbacon's HNQ question...

That one had only two answers that weren't backed up.

And only one was posted after the I dropped a similar comment there...

dhein

7:39 AM

@Ælis Well, I agree with you, just the last edit kinda makes it look a tiny bit too narrow. But avas meta post made a good point there :) Aaaaand yw :)

Ælis

8:07 AM

I think my mother gave me her cold last weekend. I'm not feeling very well :/

Tinkeringbell

8:17 AM

@Ælis Ugh. Hope it gets better soon... colds are no fun to have.

Ælis

Some cold are better than other, but this one comes with headache :/ But yeah, I hope it won't last long

Tinkeringbell

8:33 AM

@Ælis Ugh, those (and the ones where you're coughing until your muscles hurt) are the worst.

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell Not sure I experience those. But I have experience with the one where you can't stop coughing and feels like you can't breath anymore/are going to throw up and it's definitively awfull

(thankfully I don't have this right now)

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis Oh yeah, that's awful too :P For me, that usually is what gives me the muscle aches :P

Ælis

8:49 AM

@Tinkeringbell Well then, I guess I don't mind the muscle aches as much as not being able to stop coughing

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