Look, when I said I wanted the damn thing trimmed from 100 pages to 50 pages before I started editing it, I did not mean that it was OK for you to increase it to 120 pages before demanding that I devote the next week to cleaning it up. Why is this difficult for you to understand?
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Sure, leave out the really interesting part of the story…being assaulted by a fellow motorist and the consequent trip to the police station to make my statement.