clarification

Okay, world. Here is the deal.

BAD THINGS TO SAY TO

A quiet person:
“So, you’re pretty quiet.”
“You don’t talk that much, do you?”
“Are you always so quiet?”

A person who is a month away from turning twenty-one:
“Sorry, you can’t be in here at all if you’re underage. You would have to have an adult with you.”
“You look… sixteen.”

A person whose name is MAra, with two long As that sound exactly the same, which is not that hard:
“Mehra, could you do me a favor?”

A person who is afraid that her quasi-domestic little college living arrangement, which has been going on happily for almost three years, is in danger of boiling into something ugly due to encroaching realism and small but accumulating tensions:
“Sounds like you guys are really driving [roommate] crazy.”

A person whose computer won’t turn on, even though she spent an hour on the phone last night with a nice tech support guy who sounded a lot like Sunil and made jokes about her computer blowing up and dying, so she has to mail her computer, which has many things on it that are personally very important to her but that she hasn’t backed up since 2003, to the computer company in a box so that they can hopefully fix it without wiping out her entire hard drive, but there are never any guarantees:
“It’s really a good idea to get external storage of some kind to back things up on.”
“You know what I do? I e-mail things to myself now.”
“Oh. Uh, that sucks.”

Should you be faced with the burning desire to say any of these things to a person in any of these situations, please restrain yourself. That person would greatly appreciate it. Instead, you should probably send that person chocolate and a hundred dollars. Thanks.