“Though I thought that realizing that we were sayin two different things meant that there was no argument to win… what I said in my last post was that I think we’re both right in different ways, unless we’re in a contest to help the OP.”
You are right that there was no argument to win. That was part of my sarcasm which couldn’t be detected in writing. (Maybe this is a serious enough misunderstanding to force me to start using emoticons. [Who made up that word?]) But I wouldn’t say that we were both right in different ways inasmuch you were presenting how a person SHOULD approach the situation and I was presenting how some people WILL approach the situation.
“Just to annoy you”
It doesn’t annoy me when people use them; I personally want my writing to have a certain polished look which I think is lost when using them (as well as when using the various texting abbreviations). Please don’t take offense at that – you are entitled to disagree.
I don’t get the Lay’s potato chips reference (unless you are simply giving an example of something which is addictive in which case I will have to vociferously disagree), and speaking of things written by you that I don’t get, I also didn’t quite get the tail end of your post describing my position in the other thread, although the rest of it was well written (not that the last part wasn’t but I just didn’t quite understand it).