Exactly, @williamw75, you learn their real story by putting them in motion.

Yeah I heard the city's been going with the lowest bidder lately.

Read a whole article about that, it's called "context blindness.

Oh man, my buddy's air fryer did the same blinking thing last week. He let it sit unplugged overnight and it fired right up in the morning.

Sarah's line about waiting to talk is a gut punch because it's so common. I see it all the time at my kid's soccer games where parents just rehearse their next complaint instead of hearing the coach. We get so stuck on winning the point that we forget the talk itself is the point. It turns a book club or any chat into a weird competition nobody signed up for. How do you even start to break that habit for good?