zoë siskos

When I say, “Let’s meet next Tuesday?” and it’s Sunday March 23, do I mean for us to meet on Tues. March 25? Or Tues. April 1?

When it’s Saturday March 22, and I say, “He told me last week?”, do I  mean the week from the March 16 – 25, the week of March 9 – 15?  Or does anything “last week” fall into the 7 days prior to when I say “last week”?

Why is this so confusing and where is the definitive answer to it? Everyone has had that conversation to clarify which freakin’ day you are talking about exactly. 10 min or so of you saying “No, NEXT Tuesday isn’t THIS coming Tuesday. Its the Tuesday that’s coming up. THIS Tuesday would be the Tuesday of this week!”

Of course the other guy says “No no no. NEXT Tuesday is the Tuesday after THIS COMING Tuesday. THIS Tuesday is THIS COMING Tuesday. NEXT Tuesday is after that!”

WTF???? %)(&*#@!!!

It’s so annoying to have to clarify; can we just agree on one way?  Is there somewhere that has the answer? (I checked my CP style book but found nothing).

I also tried to ask The Google but how do you pose that query? I tried a couple of doozy search strings and only came upon other people discussing the same thing…but no answers.