Two brothers, Tom and Cody, live in the same house with their mom. One day Tom goes on a vacation for two weeks to another state. The next day he calls Cody at home and asks how his cat Morris is doing.
Cody replied, “He’s dead.” Tom gets angry at Cody and yells at him for an hour. Cody finally gets Tom calmed down and pleads with him that it wasn’t his fault.
Tom says, “I know that you did your best but what bothers me is how you told me.”
Confused Cody says, “How else should I have said this?”
Tom replied, “Well, when I called the first time you could have said he is up on the roof and you can’t get him down. The second time I called, you could have said he was sick and he had to be taken to the vet, and the third time you could have said that he died. That way you could’ve built me up to it.”
After one week Tom calls Cody, “Oh well, how is mom?”
Cody replies, “She’s up on the roof and I can’t get her down.”
Beating around the bush may not hurt; but it also accomplishes nothing. To be clear and precise is the best policy. Diplomacy is nothing but another term for lie.
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