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In my more pedantic youth, I entertained myself endlessly by playing this game when people tried to ask me for the time.
"Do you have the time?"
"Yes."
"Will you tell me the time?"
"It depends."
"On what?"
"Whether you ask me."
(sigh) "All right, then, will you tell me the time?!?"
"As I say: it depends!"
It astonished me how difficult it was for people to forego polite indirection.
"What time is it?!"
"It's five o'clock somewhere."