By John Zmirak, The Stream, March 30, 2021
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream, and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”
I usually hate it when people send me videos to watch. I typically don’t open them. (Sorry, online friends!)
For most of my life, I’ve been reading really quickly. So it’s painful for me to wait as the speaker … slowly … so slowly … gets to the point. Sometimes I have to fight with impatience listening to my friends face to face. Especially when I can see the point they’re driving at in the first third of their sentence, but I have to … wait until … they get … around … to it.
It doesn’t help when certain friends of mine from the South insist on telling me long, digressive stories full of details and local color and who went to Homecoming Court with whom … I want to interrupt them and shout, “Save it for a Eudora Welty story — what happens at the END???” …