"Now, Let me just stop you...right there"...

Jace

Jace

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Have you ever said it to anyone?

or

Has it ever been said to you?

And...how did it "all go"?😉
 

Jace said:

"Now, Let me just stop you...right there"...​

Have you ever said it to anyone?
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My wife never listened to me during 20 years of marriage. At the very end of our relationship I told her that with an aggressive force in my voice.
Jace said:
And...how did it "all go"?😉
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She listened to everything I said.
 

Inept said:
My wife never listened to me during 20 years of marriage. At the very end of our relationship I told her that with an aggressive force in my voice.

She listened to everything I said.
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That reminds me of the time I was on the phone with my wife and, I can't remember now what it was, but in order to get her to not over-react to something, I said. "Are you sitting down? I got something to tell you."
After I told her she says, "Oh is that all?". I was so proud of myself for acting unlike myself and getting the result I wanted.
 
Don't think I have ever used that term. Never had anyone use it with me either.

Present DH says this: "Now grant me pause" with his hand in the stop position in front of him.
I asked him to please stop with THAT stupid phrase as it means just that look on his face means: "Now let me just stop you...right there..."
 
OldFeller said:
That reminds me of the time I was on the phone with my wife and, I can't remember now what it was, but in order to get her to not over-react to something, I said. "Are you sitting down? I got something to tell you."
After I told her she says, "Oh is that all?". I was so proud of myself for acting unlike myself and getting the result I wanted.
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It's the only way I guess. :)
 
An elementary school principal said it to me once. I was giving him some line as to why I was misbehaving in class, he knew it, and out flew these words from his mouth. I stopped dead and he proceeded to inform me that he picked up some lies I had told him. He wanted to see my parents (father in particular) in school the next day.

I was interested why my father was the preferred parent. Well, they were lads who grew up together, attended the same school, church, etc.
Figured I was in very deep trouble and I'd be thrown out of this school.

Dad went down as requested and after they had a jolly reunion, I had to promise with my hand on the bible to behave myself like an angel from that day forward. I was so good, I wore a halo every day. ;)
 
Lewkat said:
An elementary school principal said it to me once. I was giving him some line as to why I was misbehaving in class, he knew it, and out flew these words from his mouth. I stopped dead and he proceeded to inform me that he picked up some lies I had told him. He wanted to see my parents (father in particular) in school the next day.

I was interested why my father was the preferred parent. Well, they were lads who grew up together, attended the same school, church, etc.
Figured I was in very deep trouble and I'd be thrown out of this school.

Dad went down as requested and after they had a jolly reunion, I had to promise with my hand on the bible to behave myself like an angel from that day forward. I was so good, I wore a halo every day. ;)
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I saw that you replied and I thought, "Oh Lewkat, she's always good for a story. I'll check it out."

Good story!
 
I'm not sure I've ever used those exact words, specifically, but I have said something along those lines when I 've gotten into some heated online arguments about J. Bruce Ismay and Titanic. So many people vilify him simply because he got into a lifeboat.
 
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"Now, Let me just stop you...right there"... sarcastically, condescendingly....​


It took him an hour to get that jam-jar out of his mouth.... 😊
 
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