Report a comment Thank you for taking the time to report the following comment to the administrator of this site. Please complete this short form and click the submit button to process your report. Name   E-mail   Reason for reporting comment       Comment in question Posted by PSS 02-05-2008 09:12,   "couldn't've" Hi Chad!    I meant for humour, but the main themes were inspired by the death of a guy I knew. Dirkin suggested moving it to ‘humour’, but it wouldn't fit there, or anywhere else as it is - it’s my first piece, and really just a sketch for something that I may develop more.    Anyway, when I was at the guy’s wake, I thought if he was there, he might speak out about how unusually nice everyone was being about him. I also thought that even if we had more time with people after they died, we still probably wouldn’t make the most of it – like we don’t spend quality time with people when they're alive and so on...    “Couldn’t’ve” isn’t a word, but an abbreviation of the sentence “couldn’t have”, which I changed it from deliberately for consistency - the same girl says “I’d’ve” earlier on, which also isn’t ‘correct’ - but sure anything goes inside quotation marks cause no one really talks proper-like. I mean, I just looked at your profile and wondered, is “effecientcy” a word? ;)    Thanks.    PS.   » Report this comment to administrator   »  Go back to the story