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Archie: All right, all right, I apologize.
Otto: You're really sorry!
Archie: I'm really really sorry, I apologize unreservedly.
Otto: You take it back!
Archie: I do, I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.
Otto:[after pausing to think this through] OK.
I apologize. Apparently, some things that were never meant to be viewed by the public WERE viewed by the public for a brief period in time. To those people, I'd like to ask that the jury disregard those remarks. That's why they weren't FOR you, because I would not want you to have a bad impression of me or of people I was talking about just because I was having a bitchy day and blowing off steam here and the stupid client fucked up and did not put it in the privacy group I wanted .... /mutter mutter/ and anyway that's my excuse and I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to that person particularly that had every reason to get pissed off by having things come swinging around on the far outside curve and smack him in the face with one of those solid wet *slaps* like a tentacle across the face. I'm also sorry because I was pushing buttons, even though it wasn't for the purpose of pushing buttons: I was completely on the defensive, felt like I was on alien turf and was --yes-- mustering support where I thought I could get it and needed it. But I won't do it again. Ever.
(I'd really like to ask that in the future, if I say something that seems crazy, pissy or out there, people a.) take it with a grain of salt. I may be done five minutes from now and b) talk to me before talking to others so I might avoid things like this.)
So, since the error was public, the problem was made more public than needed to be, and so, for the sake of all (if you think you might be one of them, you are) I'm sorry. I apologize for being out of line, for overreacting, for taking things too personally, for pushing boundaries, and for stepping on toes.
I hope that 6 months down the road this seems like a crazy, boy-we-were-making-mountains-out-of-molehills, brief adjustment period.
Because part of the reason I'm sensitive and defensive is because I care too much and I know it and I'm trying not to. I love you. You're my family.
Otto: You're really sorry!
Archie: I'm really really sorry, I apologize unreservedly.
Otto: You take it back!
Archie: I do, I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.
Otto:[after pausing to think this through] OK.
I apologize. Apparently, some things that were never meant to be viewed by the public WERE viewed by the public for a brief period in time. To those people, I'd like to ask that the jury disregard those remarks. That's why they weren't FOR you, because I would not want you to have a bad impression of me or of people I was talking about just because I was having a bitchy day and blowing off steam here and the stupid client fucked up and did not put it in the privacy group I wanted .... /mutter mutter/ and anyway that's my excuse and I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to that person particularly that had every reason to get pissed off by having things come swinging around on the far outside curve and smack him in the face with one of those solid wet *slaps* like a tentacle across the face. I'm also sorry because I was pushing buttons, even though it wasn't for the purpose of pushing buttons: I was completely on the defensive, felt like I was on alien turf and was --yes-- mustering support where I thought I could get it and needed it. But I won't do it again. Ever.
(I'd really like to ask that in the future, if I say something that seems crazy, pissy or out there, people a.) take it with a grain of salt. I may be done five minutes from now and b) talk to me before talking to others so I might avoid things like this.)
So, since the error was public, the problem was made more public than needed to be, and so, for the sake of all (if you think you might be one of them, you are) I'm sorry. I apologize for being out of line, for overreacting, for taking things too personally, for pushing boundaries, and for stepping on toes.
I hope that 6 months down the road this seems like a crazy, boy-we-were-making-mountains-out-of-molehills, brief adjustment period.
Because part of the reason I'm sensitive and defensive is because I care too much and I know it and I'm trying not to. I love you. You're my family.
