I sort of want to frame your reply here, because I think it's exactly the right reply to this kind of derailing. It explains why the derailing is a problem. It acknowledges the valid conversation topic for somewhere else, and, puts the focus on what you were intending to talk about.
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Date: 2011-06-15 01:33 pm (UTC)I sort of want to frame your reply here, because I think it's exactly the right reply to this kind of derailing. It explains why the derailing is a problem. It acknowledges the valid conversation topic for somewhere else, and, puts the focus on what you were intending to talk about.
And yes, you are amazingly patient.