biggest pet peeve: people who start a conversation by saying "i have very bad news" and then insist on meandering their way to the bad news via a longform story
whyyyyyyyy
you can tell me the full story all you want, just start it out by telling me who died/who has cancer/whether or not my house burned down, pls
"I'm sorry I heard nothing you just fucking said because I'm trying not to have a panic attack WHAT IS THE NEWS"
There's a reason why if I'm telling a story about someone in the hospital I open with "So first off, everyone is okay now-"
^ that
I did indeed open the story of finding out a tree had come down behind my house with "To begin with, I'm fine, do you want to hear--"
For this very reason, damn you enter button
oh my god i hate this lol
just rip off the band-aid
start with the news, if you need to get the story out after that's fine but like...what is happening?? please tell me!