Take a deep breath the next time you’re arguing and think before you say “I could care less…”. That’s the opposite of the put down you’re trying to launch.
If you don’t care about something someone else is saying, you “couldn’t” care less. If you could care less, whatever you’re talking about has some importance to you. The correct way to put down whatever you’re talking about is to put it at the bottom of the care barrel where it would be impossible to care less about that thing.
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Perhaps they can care less, but not that much less. Maybe their level of care already nears the bottom of the care barrel.
But then it’d be like they weren’t really putting down what you were doing or saying, but like they were indifferent to it. I fully agree with “?”. I hate this. In fact, when someone says it to me, I think, ‘Great! Sort of like what I have to say or do isn’t really all that bad to you. Not that I care, but hey, thanks… you sort of approve.’
i disagree, when i say something like that, i mean that i was giving a much valued span attention to the wrong person. With that said, one realizes that the culprit is really worthless, and thus, lowered in the “focus list”.
theGoose on July 20th, 2007 at 4:48 pm | Link
I can’t believe you said that. I was just trying to explain this concept to someone and they just were not getting it. I’m happy someone else understands.
bree on November 20th, 2007 at 8:35 pm | Link
Care bear
did someone say care bear I love care bears….
mark on November 21st, 2007 at 6:39 pm | Link