My friend and I were having a debate the other day, about Self.com, but before I give you the details, let me set the stage a little. Remember the old Ally McBeal episodes where Elaine would accuse Ally of getting “snappish” with her? David E. Kelley invented the adjective that every woman could relate to, and applied it to scenarios when one character was being a little too bitchy in conversation. Snappishness was a fundamental part of Ally and Elaine’s relationship. The same is true for my friendship with this particular friend. We love each other, but snappishness is an accepted and appreciated component of how we relate to one another.
I think it stems from my inherent inability to verbally edit out unimportant details when I speak, thereby causing a hunger for the same amount of detail from others, and her natural desire to dole out information in small fragments, requiring a near cross examination to complete a story. In fact, remember that Navy admiral POW (Jeremiah Denton), in Vietnam who blinked with his eyes, in morse code, the word TORTURE in his forced television interview? (Neither do I, because I wasn’t born yet, but I have a vague recollection of the movie about it)
