Hate to Break It To You...

   “Give me a break!” What does that really mean? A break as in a coffee break, where you don’t really have coffee but maybe have a smoke (ugh!-not me!) or call someone (who does that anymore when people are constantly texting)?

   Is the break a breather between sentences, like “let me get a word in?” Like a sentence break?

   Or “brake” where you need to have everything halted (“put the brakes on”), then choose another direction.

   Yeah, another direction, away from the person you’ve demanded a break/brake from. They can be so full of it, right?

   Be careful if to whom you’re saying “give me a break” doesn’t clearly understand your language. You might find they misinterpret you and they go to try to smash you into pieces! What a breakdown they would be having! Then you would have to breakout of the situation, and likely breakup your relationship with them, at breakneck speed, to save your life of course, provided they don’t halt your progress by slamming down their own brakes.

   Yet even if this all happened, there is a chance you could open the communication further, and have a breakthrough in your relationship. I’m glad I could break this all down for you.

   (No one was harmed during the writing of this essay.) Now I’m going to go take a … rest. 

Theresa M