# I told them so!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 14, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546 "2006-02-14T22:20:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546/1 "2006-02-14T22:20:36Z")

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We recently a _technical exercise_ at work. Yes, I’m being deliberately vague. Yes, they completely cocked it up with the result that nobody could do certain parts of their jobs. Yes, I’d previously suggested splitting it up - even suggesting the splits. Yes, I’d actually **begged** them not to do it all at once.

And verily did they make a fine mess.

So I’d just like to say,

**TOLD  
YOU  
SO**

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**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546/2 "2006-02-14T22:26:37Z")

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In my experience, nobody likes a “Told You So”…

Perhaps you might consider keeping your gloating to yourself for harmony’s sake?

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546/3 "2006-02-14T22:35:39Z")

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Is there anything sweeter than saying “I told you so” and being completely justified? Well, there’s one thing. When my husband acts against my advice, and he reaps the harvest of his misjudgement, he looks over to me and says “Don’t say a word. Not one word.” And I just sit there with a smirk on my face. He knows I told him so. He knows I was right. And now he’s telling himself that I told him so. I don’t have to say anything.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546/4 "2006-02-14T22:40:24Z")

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My husband’s version of that is, “You might be partially right.” I understand him well enough to know that means, “I was totally wrong, you are totally right, and we need not speak of this again.”

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546/5 "2006-02-14T22:53:48Z")

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> [@featherlou](#):
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> My husband’s version of that is, “You might be partially right.” I understand him well enough to know that means, “I was totally wrong, you are totally right, and we need not speak of this again.”

One of my workers would say “You were more right than I was.”

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546/6 "2006-02-14T22:55:05Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> We recently a _technical exercise_ at work. Yes, I’m being deliberately vague.

So vague we can’t even have a verb?

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**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546/7 "2006-02-14T23:09:07Z")

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> [@Smeghead](#):
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> So vague we can’t even have a verb?

So vague we can’t _even_ a verb.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-told-them-so/344546/8 "2006-02-14T23:19:54Z")

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> [@Boo Boo Foo](#):
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> In my experience, nobody likes a “Told You So”…

You Are Not Wrong. Which is why I’m posting it here.