My job as a staff officer currently involves building and analyzing some pretty complicated reports for our unit. Recently a young sergeant was assigned the task of sending up the data from her Battalion. “It’s been a while since I’ve had to do these reports,” she wrote to me in an email, “Please bare with me.”
I quickly wrote back, “Sergeant, in regards to this report, I will gladly bear with you. But I will not bare with you, as that would be fraternization.”
neumatikos 