Today’s pet peeve: People who message you and ask if they can ask a question.
YOU ALREADY ARE ASKING A QUESTION.
And then they wait for me to say “Ok, go ahead” instead of
JUST
ASKING
THE
QUESTION.
If they actually asked the question, I could reply to them when I get on the computer and an efficient transaction of data would be complete without a ridiculous amount of pre-transmission protocol.
Just remember, everyone’s ideas of etiquette and efficiency are different. If efficiency reigned supreme, RS-232 would have been as fast as USB 2.0…
The point of asking that question is not the face value of it, it’s to prepare you. If someone is asking you if they can ask a question, what they’re really asking for is your full attention.
The people who are impatient at this sort of request are going to be doomed forever with people asking it, because that’s exactly why the questions aren’t just asked, from fear that your impatience will override the importance of the question (whether or not that is actually the case is besides the point).
But to prepare me for asking a question by asking a question?
Full attention? To something I can re-read?
Bah!