It didn't work.
Talking must be the childhood skillset I have exploited most - it's right up there in daily practice with eating and toilet training. I can't resist a natter, excepting only on that cursed contraption the telephone.
It's not for lack of mathematical ability that I can't count the times I've wished I'd kept my mouth shut. Often immediately after some stupid/hurtful/indiscreet/inaccurate blabber escaped. On a couple of wincingly notable occasions, it's been a combination of all four. Humiliation high score!
Anyway, all that wishing is slowly taking effect. Conversations are actually more fun when you let the other guys have a turn, I have found. Amazing! Listening means you learn stuff. And of course there is the reduced potential for making those dumb comments.
I've long since forgiven Sister Mary Loyola for the peg incident. After all, it's a great story, and she did gift me with perfect apostrophe control. Of which more later.
*Did anyone read my first school teacher's name as Sister Mary Loquacious? Ironic, innit?
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