Still or Sparkling?

When you go to a restaurant, If you hear, “Would you like to have still or sparkling? What will you answer?

Yes, either Still or Sparkling because the question includes a directed answer*.

You don’t even think something else such as “ Tap Water” (Free Water).

I sometimes say “ California Water,” which is a fancy way to ask for tap water. If I am in New York, I say New York Water:) (You guys should try it:)

We humans having a hard time answering those questions with unexpected answers. That is why “experts” are leading our problem and solutions using via advertising channels and marketing platforms and telling us “what we really want” instead of “what we need”

I need “free” water.

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*As Nassim Nicholas Taleb remarks, ‘the way a question is phrased is itself information.’