Saturday, June 17, 2006

TOO LOUD

Outside a house when a man pointing at a window above the front door he’d just come out of said, ‘is that too loud, is that too loud?’
‘Is what too loud?’ I said.
‘The music, is it too loud?’
‘Doesn’t sound too loud from here.’
‘That’s what I said,’ he said, ‘but she keeps telling me to turn it down.’
‘So it’s too loud for her.’
‘But too loud for her doesn’t make it too loud, does it?’
‘Maybe “too loud” means something different for her than it does for you.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Er, I don’t know and anyway, look, I’ve gotta go.’
‘Oh, okay’ he said, ‘but it’s not too loud is it?’

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