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“Oh, you’ll hate that.”

November 29, 2009 by

I have this funny, perverse mental habit.  When someone tells me, “You HAVE to watch X.  You will LOVE X,” I immediately find myself averse to ever looking at such a thing.

My mother is a very smart woman.

She now precedes all recommendations with, “So – you will HATE this.  You don’t want to watch/read/listen to it.”  For some reason, this actually works.

Funny little thing, brains.

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Comments

  1. Marie says
    December 1, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    Funny thing, mothers!
    I hope you had a nice visit.

  2. kathy says
    June 29, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    ..I think its the same principle acting out in both cases: you are not so easily read, easily ascribed affinities, distaste. You’re much more complicated than that. And this is true, my friend.

    There are very few people whose recommendations I will consistently act upon: you’re one of them :) but don’t go getting all, “oh, *I* know Kathy…!”

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