Monday, November 1, 2010

The Many Powers of Maybe

Refusing to Commit Has Never Been Easier, and It Says A Lot About Us
By ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN
Wall Street Journal


If I asked you to have dinner with me Friday night, would you say "yes"? (Great!) "No"? (Bummer.)

Or would you break my heart and say "maybe"?

It seems it wasn't long ago that invitations required definitive answers. We would receive a phone call or a piece of mail requesting our attendance at an event, and we were expected to call or write back—with an affirmative or negative response.

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