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You don't leave a message?! That's just rude

Moving right along, I have a similar problem. I tend to stuter. A lot. I later realized that if I mentally rehearse what I'm about to say, it comes out smoothly. And I don't just practice what I'm goint to say, but how I say it. My tone of voice, it's speed, and at times, the way I'm standing/sitting/walking/etc.

Since I'm in sales as of this posting, just about everything that I have to say to a customer has been practiced some time before. And when I'm just talking to people, I try to use my best one liners. In fact, I will recycle lines I've used in emails, chats, and posts.

So sometime in the next few days, I'm going to say to someone, "You don't [insert something they should have done]?! That's just rude

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