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Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.
Hope you have a great weekend and Friday morning.
We were talking about cliches, whether the cliches were using talking with one another or the movie TV cliches, and we were hitting the ones that really annoyed us.
I was in corporate America.
I swear he could not go into a meeting without 1,000 cliches.
I think there are more cliches in the workplace than anywhere else.
Yeah, and they're all sitting around a
table and they just want their voices to be heard.
right well and they'll say things like okay we're in real greenfield here this is all new grass
okay i've never heard that one
yeah and then it was like oh bob that's a great idea let's run it up the black hole
yeah
see
when when he says that i'd like to just grab the bull by the horns and punch him in the face that's what i want to do
yeah but you haven't talked about
What it is you're really talking about
at
all.
That's why I don't say a thing in meetings.
I just kind of sit there and wonder how they got the gigantic table in there.
Like a shipment of bottle.
What's going on?
It was like seven years until I finally found those things came apart.
My bad.
I hate it with a passion.
It's so overused and it's like, what's the matter?
You don't have multi-syllabic words in your vocabulary.
I think cliches are often used by people, and I think we all use them, but people who have less of a vocabulary use them more often.
It's simple, I'm sorry.
It is simple.
It's my fault or excuse me or something.
It seems- Something sensible rather than my bad.
It seems like a very flippant way to say, I'm in the wrong.
Right.
It doesn't seem like you're sorry that you did the wrong thing.
Say if somebody messes you up at work and you get in trouble and you're really ticked off at that person.
And all they say is, my bad.
Oh, you just want to flick them in the forehead.
That's what you want to do.
You want to flick them
in the forehead.
It's going to be a beautiful day today.
You're trying to tell me it's not going to be raining cats and dogs?
No.
And what a terrible cliche.
Old one, too.
It's been around forever.
I wonder where that even started, raining cats and dogs.
That doesn't even make
sense.
No, it doesn't.
What does that mean?
Why would it be?
I mean, it's not just, to me,
doesn't mean hey it's really raining out there it means oh my god it's the end of the world these freak things are happening dogs and cats falling from the sky oh my god yes and that literally could
happen
has been passed away from pancreatic cancer over 30 years ago
sorry to hear that
my mom kept saying to me just remember Susie God does not give you more than you can handle
oh boy
and then two weeks after my husband passed away my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer
oh man
so I looked at my mother and I said
just remember mom god does not see you more than you can handle
and what was her reaction
she looked at me and she said i'm gonna learn to hate that phrase aren't i and i said oh yeah
i'm sure you felt like oh my god this is more losing a spouse that is that's more than you can handle and if not i don't know what would be
it's just god has a plan for it
If
you're having something just tough happen with your marriage or at work and somebody says, don't cry over spilt milk.
I think that's belittling what you've got going on and what your mom said to you after your husband died.
That's a an extreme example of that.
God never gives you more than you can handle the person who says that you just.
Boy, you feel like smacking them and saying, you know what?
I've got more than I can handle, so... So you can leave now, thank you.
That's just how I felt.
It was like, Mike, stop saying that.
Right.
I reached the end of my rope.
It's too bad you were able to give her an example of why you should never say that, but...
Yeah, my dad was a smoker, and they totally missy could smote him.
He'd...
live a long time and he couldn't give the cigarette back.
Don't you
hate it when you sit across the room it should be in a business meeting it can be on a conference call or it can be on something and somebody continuously says at the end of the day at the end of the day this is where we want to be right assuming that their day is the same as ours you know right
yeah you say something like at the end of this day and then you got so much to do i mean your day goes until like midnight
movies, when a skyscraper is gonna fall,
the
main character always runs forward instead of left or right to avoid being smushed.
Yeah,
you know, I never really thought of it that way, but yeah, I guess it could hit you if it's falling forward.
Good point.
I
guess the writers of these movies have never had to get away from a falling building.
I think more writers need to experience
that.
And we all know that we just stand there and watch it, see how big the explosion is.
That
might be dangerous.
Well, maybe that's the problem.
Maybe they have come here and that's how they learned.
Absolutely.
That's a good time right there.
When they're in the rush and they have to get to the hospital or whatever, there's
always a parking spot right next.
to the building right
front.
Yeah, I never find that.
And ain't it funny that before they even get to the parking lot, they're going 100 miles an hour for like 20 miles and never get pulled over and nothing.
It's like the police know that they're going fast because there's a life or death emergency going on.
So they just leave them alone.
Eh, we'll let them get to the hospital quick.
And you're in a busy city?
Most emergency situations for me, I only find something in the back of the parking lot and then I pass
out like halfway to the door.
I don't even look at the front anymore.
I just go right to the back.
You've become very pessimistic about parking after being so optimistic after seeing one of these movies.
Yes.
My cliché is such a cliché that they call it out in the movie.
What?
Head them off at the pass.
Head them off at the pass.
Yep.
Usually in those Hallmark Christmas movies.
No.
Westerns, of course.
Of course.
That is such an old cliché anymore.
And it's in such a nice
What's the movie?
Oh, that's right, and they use it in kind of a cliche parody way, right?
Oh, right, right,
right, yes.
I may have gone too long without seeing Blazing Saddles.
Oh, smack me.
Yeah, no kidding.
I
remember that
scene now that you mention it.
I hate that cliche.
how you feel
yeah I know how you know you don't nobody knows how I feel
Yeah, of course not.
They're trying to be empathetic, and I appreciate that, but I know how you feel.
It's kind of insulting, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
Yeah.
Oh, don't worry.
I know how you feel.
Shut up.
No, you don't.
Describe how it feels then.
Describe it right now to me.
Yep.
I think that's what it needs.
I think we need to challenge the people who say that and say, OK, well, describe how you feel.
And then they'll describe it like, nope.
That's not it?
Nope.
Nope.
You're a dope.
Get away from me.
They always want a pig in a poke.
Pig in a poke.
You know, I've heard that forever, but I have no idea what that means.
You know what that means?
Pig in a poke.
My father always did a pig in a poke.
He'd go to buy a Christmas tree.
They used to be all wrapped up in meshing.
Never opened up.
Yeah.
He'd say, I want that one.
It was a pig in a poke.
You take your chance of what you get.
That makes no sense to me.
It sounds like a gas station convenience store, you know?
I'm gonna go over to the pig in the poke and go get one of them gas station hot dogs.
Never eat gas station food.
Nope.
Nope.
That should be a cliche because we should say that all the time.
Never eat gas station food.
You'll end up with way more gas than you expected.
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