Empathy Tools for the Foul of Mouth

This morning Co-worker B said:

“What is this e-mail? It doesn’t make any sense! Why ask more questions when you should just answer my question? What’s wrong with people? You know?”

I replied,

“Hell yes; you send a damn e-mail and all you want is for them to answer your fucking question! Why the fuck can’t they just answer it instead of writing back with some bullshit response!”

I stopped. I said, “There should be a word, for when you’re paraphrasing but with tons more swearing. Because I do it a lot.”

There was a beat.

Co-worker A and I said, in unison: Swearaphrasing!

And then I said, “Hammertime!” but he hadn’t read that post yet.