Complete Sentences

I was standing on Help Island one day talking to a friend who was filling me in on a lot of the recent gossip.

"How do you get all this gossip?" I asked her.

"I just hang around chatting with people in IM," she replied, "and people fill me in on what ever has been going on."

"But, I hang around a lot, too," I protested. "And people never fill me in on the gossip."

"Well, people don't talk to you as easily, because you are intimidating." she informed me.

"How am I intimidating?" I inquired.

"Because you tend to chat in complete sentences," she replied.

Complete sentences? There is negative social value in completing your sentences? Apparently so. But there is also positive social value. I had another friend say that I was unlike anyone she had ever met. I asked why. Yes, you guessed it, the complete sentences thing again. I can imagine an inscription on my tombstone... "He Completed His Sentences" Yes, the sum of my life's work may be no more than completed sentences.

I have always wanted to make my mark in the world. But being known for completing sentences was not exactly what I had in mind. I can imagine the following interaction in an English class of the future.

"Incomplete sentence. What's wrong?"

"lol"

"No idea."

"dunno"

"??"

"not a clue"

"np. IM me for answer"

"lol"

Maybe mortality is nature's way of saving you from such indignities in the future.