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Help! What word describes that annoying experience when someone asks me or reminds me to do something I was two seconds away from doing anyway?
An example....I am preparing a presentation at work using a lap top and just setting up the cables and so on when a colleague says, 'You need to put the blue cable in to the wall socket?'. In my mind I'm thinking,' One more second and I would have just done that'. What did my colleague do? Is there a fairly neutral word that encompasses the meaning 'you just told me something I was about to do'?
Thank you so much for the replies. I like Grant's 'prevu do' and was also thinking about foreign words perhaps Latin or Greek words...something like 'pre..[before]...intended' but pre-intended does not really work. It seems I might just have to stick with .........'already on it bud...' said in a gruff voice?
Jane
I would be honored.
I have an arrangement with my wife to deal with a similar sensitivity of mine. It would happen at times that I would be putting the finishing touches on some major project, and my wife might start a discussion about â€the next thing we need to do.†I called it “stomping out the afterglow.†When I told my wife how it made me feel, she kindly agreed to give me a 24-hour afterglow grace period.
Martha Barnette
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