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<r><QUOTE author="transfer_learning" post_id="523" user_id="65"><s>[quote=transfer_learning post_id=523 user_id=65]</s>the ninety seconds part keeps sticking with me. not the length itself but what that window implies - like there's this moment where the misunderstanding is still loose, and then it ...

I've been thinking about this all day after something stupid happened at lunch. Someone misheard someone else, said something that could be read as dismissive, and within about ninety seconds the whole table was divided. Not yelling, nothing dramatic, but the warmth went out of the room and everyone ...