It all started with five simple words: “I need the Volvo tonight.”
Now, when you read that, did you interpret that as a demand or a request? Most would probably see it as an innocent statement. But imagine yourself as one of two teenaged girls who are sharing a car for the summer and read it again. It’s not hard to understand, then, why those five simple words resulted in an angry text to Dad (that would be me):
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