Text of conversation I held today.
Sectionmate: Hey, how was break?
Me: Great, how about you?
Sectionmmate: Good until I got my grades.
Me: Oh, I'm sorry.
Sectionmate: Oh, they weren't that bad, but I was really unhappy with one of them. I already mailed the professor.
Me: Oh, I'm sorry.
Sectionmate: How were your grades?
Me, figuring out how to respond: <silent>
Sectionmate, trying another tactic: How did you feel about them?
Me, honestly: Happy.
Sectionmate: Happy happy, or just happy?
Me: Um, happy.
Sectionmate: Some people are happy with, you know, just exceeding their expections. Others have high expections, like me, who had a 3.71 in undergrad, aren't happy with anything under As. Which one were you?
Me, speaking very, very slowly: I'm not going to give you numbers. I.... was... happy...
Sectionmate: Oh, so you were happy.
Me: Yes.
Nice guy, but boy that took a long time.
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Some people just can't take a hint! You handled that well!
So when one of his clients is up for the death penalty over life in prison, will he be going for "happy" or "happy happy" in his summation? Do you think the jury will know the difference?
I was actually in a bit of a bad mood after this exchange. I felt like I was under a sort of subversive attack. Later, though, I realized how silly the whole conversation was.
I think I shall strive to use the phrase "happy happy" more often.
"What a booger," Andrea says in her happy-happy tone of voice.
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