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I couldn’t resist this quote:

“Praise it like an enema; it cleans you out.” -Bob Jones, live from Lakeland, FL

“My perfect date? I take the girl out for a nice dinner. She looks stunning. but then, some guy tries to hit on her… so I grab him and throw him into a jukebox. But the other ninja has a knife… so I take her home… As I kiss her goodnight, I hear something in the leaves, and I flip her around. She gets a poison arrow right in the back…” — Dwight K. Schrute (The Office)

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You: “Hey, thanks for picking me up at the airport.”

Me: “No problem. It’s the least I could do.”

Let’s assume that you’re “You” and I’m “Me” (a stretch… I know) – don’t you just want to slug “Me” at this point? Heck yes, you do. Why is that an acceptable response for “Me”? Why would you ever want to tell someone that whatever favor you’re doing is really just the least that you could do for them? That in essence you had to do them the favor, because it was the absolute minimum for maintaining whatever sort of relationship you have. Like “You” are supposed to somehow feel good about that? Is it a humility thing? Is it that really the “favor” is a big inconvenience for “Me”, but “I” am unable to articulate it?

Why isn’t it socially unacceptable for the conversation to go like this:

You: “Hey, thanks for picking me up at the airport.”

Me: “You’re welcome. It was a big deal, but you’re worth it to me.”

??

Note: this rant has no implications to any persons real or imagined.