When I ask a question requiring only a yes or no response (or any one word answer), and get the start of a long diatribe for a response, I will stop them and remind them "I only asked what time it was, not how to build a watch."
Someday I hope to be the person my dogs think I am . . . The only true cost of having a dog is its death. Someone once said "a nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." Shiloh Sharps . . . there is no substitute. NRA Endowment Member