This is getting on my nerves. MG indicates she has a few bands in mind, but when pressed for more she reneges and throws out the comment she has a wide variety of musical interests - as if that explains what "couple of bands [she] can't stand". I think she either hates one of my top ten bands, or really can't provide a deeper conversation. I should have removed my philosophical response and told her "The Beatles".

Let's follow a thread through an email chain from MG. Take each line as being ripped from an email, and the following lines are replies to said emails.

1. MG: What is your least favorite band/singer?

2. Me: Least favorite band and or singer? I really do not have an answer. I tend to dislike/hate large swaths of music, and sure - some bands are worse than the others but when it comes to the bottom of the barrel do I really care to ID the crabs scrabbling in the murk? Not so much.

3. MG: There are a couple bands I can't stand..I respect them but that doesn't mean I like they're music. Nickelback is one of them.

4. Me: Respected? I get the nickleback - everyone hates them. Give me another.

5. MG: Besides nickelcrap, I can't think of any bands I can't stand...I have a very wide variety of musical interest..

I also find it mildly amusing she flat out ignores my response. I mean how does one read the shit I say and *NOT* want to pursue a more coherent answer? There have a been a few other cases of my outlandish responses are used to invoke a conversation and they are glossed over and ignore. I know a few people at work that do that - if they do not understand a statement or paragraph they refuse to acknowledge it - that or their brains just put a large white spot on that part of their visual inputs, thus protecting the fragile pudding chilling in their skulls.

Ugh.