Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.
Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.
I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.
Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.