Scott Seidman typed:
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For some reason, my wife leaves long voicemails. At this point, she
knows that if I don't think the message is important after about 15
seconds, I just delete it, with the rest unheard.

and you're still married? ;-)

My wife and I have discussed this at length. She would ask me to go talk to
one of our kids about something they did wrong and I'd be back in a few
minutes. She didn't understand how I could have had any impact with a
subject that would have been, for her, a half-hour lecture. My talks usually
went something like:

"Did you do that?"
"Yes."
"Do you think that was a smart thing to do?
"No."
"Okay then. Don't do it again. You're grounded"

I always figured people's (especially kids) attention spans are short, and
it was best to get to the point.
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TL,
Tim
(not that anyone read all of that.)
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