{"id":841,"date":"2020-12-31T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T21:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=841"},"modified":"2020-12-31T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T21:49:47","slug":"the-unnecessary-hyperbole-of-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/31\/the-unnecessary-hyperbole-of-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unnecessary Hyperbole of “Perfect”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There’s a chain steakhouse nearby and all the servers are obsessed with “perfect”.\u00a0 For example, you’re eating your meal and the server comes by to check on you and instead of asking, “How is everything?”, they ask, “Is everything perfect?”<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

First off, nothing is ‘perfect’.\u00a0 Second, it puts me in a corner.\u00a0 The first option is open-ended and I get to set my own standard.\u00a0 In the second option I have to either agree it’s perfect or come off as I’m complaining, because anything less than ‘perfect’… i.e. ‘very good’… is somehow less than acceptable.\u00a0 And we\/they know most people don’t want to complain, so we’re pressured into giving impeccable reviews.\u00a0 (I suspected at the time management told servers to do this because they all did it.)\u00a0 The Grump’s response?:\u00a0 “It’s very good.”<\/p>\n

\n
\u00a0perfect: adjective<\/div>\n

Definition of perfect<\/p>\n

(Entry 1 of 3)
\n1a : being entirely without fault or defect<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/perfect<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s become ubiquitous.\u00a0 Now I can’t talk to anyone without this word coming up.\u00a0 I go to the doctor and they ask me to verify my information.\u00a0 “What’s your phone number?”<\/p>\n

“867-5309”<\/p>\n

“Perfect.”<\/p>\n

-facepalm-\u00a0 Is that really necessary?\u00a0 All I did was answer correctly.\u00a0 If my number had changed would it have been less than perfect?<\/p>\n

Stop the insane hyperbole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a chain steakhouse nearby and all the servers are obsessed with “perfect”.\u00a0 For example, you’re eating your meal and the server comes by to check on you and instead of asking, “How is everything?”, they ask, “Is everything perfect?” \ud83d\ude10 First off, nothing is ‘perfect’.\u00a0 Second, it puts me in a corner.\u00a0 The first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}