When did every question become a "quick question?" I noticed this several

[japple]

years ago. People started saying "I have a quick question." As one whose job entailed answering lots of questions for caller/consumers, I always replied, "there is no such thing as a quick question or a quick answer." When did every question become a quick question?

[NYC_SKP]

1. I guess we're all busy and when we want to bother a busy person it's a way to express that it won't

be a long conversation.

In practice, however, when they say that it seems to turn out to be a particularly LONG question.

[Skittles]

2. I think it is because everyone became busier in their jobs

so people are more apt to think they are bothering people when they ask questions

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Sure, everyone's schedule is so full these days

FULL OF ASS KICKING YES SIR

[Skittles]

6. there's so many just needing remedial ass kickings

hard to get to the just-plain-egregious offenders lately

[yuiyoshida]

4. Maybe it was TV Sound bites that changed this...

People don't have the time to stand around waiting for a long winded answer... so like watching TV, it has to be quick and fast, so they can get on their way. Thank goodness for GOOGLE.

[NightWatcher]

5. Thursday

[japple]

7. Most of those folks who wanted to ask a quick question just

wanted a quick answer to a long, involved question, IMHO. It's kind of like those folks in the cartoons/comics who trek up the mountains in Tibet to ask the holy men "what is the meaning of life?" You know they all want it summed up in a nice tidy package.

[Uncle Joe]

8. I believe that started about the time when microwave ovens became popular.

everybody wanted it now.

Thanks for the thread, japple.

[japple]

9. If they just wanted the time of day, that might be an easy answer, but

you never knew which time zone they were calling from!

[Uncle Joe]

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