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“Hun, do me a favor.”

“Are you asking me or telling me?”

“I dunno. Maybe both. Is it possible for it to be both?”

“I think it’s possible, but I don’t think that’s the best way for it to work out for you.”

“Well in that case let’s call it a question.”

“Still sounds a lot like a statement, though.”

“Even if I tell you it’s a question?”

“I’m just saying it would be nice to hear it as a question, ya know, since you are the one asking of the favor and I am potentially the one granting of the favor.”

“And see, if I asked you to do me a favor and pick a nit, we would already be done here!”

“Well, we wouldn’t have because you never asked me. You told me. If you had said, ‘Hun, do me a favor and pick this nit,’ THEN we would be done here.”

“So—and I’m really asking here—are we in agreement that this is a lot out of nothing?”

“Yes! We are in agreement that you are actually asking this time. And we are in agreement that we seem to be done here already.”

“Hun, do me a favor. Question mark.”

“I’m not sure how I feel about you just saying punctuation at me, since I am neither Siri nor Alexa. Just a little reminder, that I am your human partner. Period.”

“Hey Siri…”

“I am going to stop you there, before you say something that you think is clever but will actually get you into some real trouble.”

“What if I ask something that I think is clever but will actually get me into real trouble?”

“Well then you may be stuck doing your own favors forever.”

“Are they really favors if you do them yourself, though?”

“I guess you will have a committee of one to make that grand decision. Or if you get lonely hearing yourself, which I doubt you will admit to, you can always ask Siri.”

“You’re leaving? Over this? Are you kidding me?”

“And look at you, finally figuring out the question thing.”

“That’s it?”

“That’s it.”

Josh Bard

Josh Bard is a guy. A sports guy, an ideas guy, a wise guy, a funny guy, a Boston guy, and sometimes THAT guy. Never been a Guy Fieri guy, though.

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