Why so complicated?

“So, yes or no?”

“Well… blah blah blah blah blah blah”

I waited patiently, even nodded and added some sound of agreement, but most of the speech went into my left ear and came straight out. I am not disrespectful or anything, I’ve just experienced this crap too many times. So, since I am the dick that I am and I get a kick out of forcing people to take decisions, I repeated the question.

“I heard what you are saying and what you are implying, but I still need to hear it from you because I work only with truth. So, yes or no?”

Don’t know about you, but I don’t like it when someone avoids making a decision. Sure, I created this question in an otherwise boring day, but it is there and I can’t understand why people have to use implied meaning to answer what was originally a yes or no question. For some, it’s the way they’ve always answered, for others, they feel uncomfortable saying no. For me, the first initial response is always no if I never thought about the question and came to a conclusion.

This situation happens most with woman and I have inquired a few about this aversion to say a definite yes or no. It’s usually to save the guy some pain of being denied or a covert way to leave an opening to later reverse their mind. I guess a colleague put my attitude nicely in his joking remark during one of my forceful questioning of a female colleague:

“Quick, just say yes or no. Peter has no time for this.”

Yes, you can’t hurt my ego by saying no to me. My well being is not dependent on your decision, please don’t diminish me by believing it’ll do anything. So let’s cut the crap please and just answer a simple question.