5/17/2004 05:38:19 PM|||Amy|||To my father: As a result of the insidious influence of Sesame Street, maybe I have a fifteen second attention span. Maybe I have just lost my ability to listen. But, here is what I have learned about myself after trying to coordinate a myriad of everyday issues with you. If you want me to do something, then reduce your demands/requests to one short sentence. Because, really, I have lost the ability to pay attention long enough to pick out key words and phrases, and I almost always stop listening after 15 seconds. |||108483427932828844|||Verbose: Impaired by Wordiness (www.m-w.com)