“Rumplestiltskin had one too, I think.”

Today’s oneword takes a hard look at communication skills.
Or something like that.

“I’m not up to these kinds of deadlines.”
“You love deadlines. You told me they help you get things done.”
“Normally. Right now I have too many of them at once and they’re ganging up on me. I’m stretched out; I feel like I’ve been spun through a… what do you call it?”
“Clothes dryer?”
“No… that thing that they used to use to make thread. The thing that girl pricked her finger on and slept for a hundred years.”
“Sleeping Beauty.”
“Yeah. What’s that called?”
“A fairy tale.”