Kizzy said:Good advice. I think women make an effort to spare feelings so they have to fluff up everything they say, instead of going right for the nuts and bolts, but I have run across more men than ever that do this as well.
Right now, I deal with hundreds of people every month, about 1/2 of them on a weekly basis. I find myself getting frustrated with "fluff" just fricken say it.
Totally agree with this. Men don't worry about being regarded as evil if they don't end every sentence with a question mark. Women, moreso then men, tend to work hard at phrasing things in a gentle/positive/humble manner. So instead of, "Honey, your mail cubby is getting full and you really need to go through the stuff in there and do something with your mail, it's been piling up for months, ." It should be more like, "You're not going to a member of your clubs anymore if you don't pay your association dues. BTW, the bills are in your cubby." Is that about right?