We have a running joke about “let me show you a better way.” That phrase used to cause a lot of fights early on in our marriage. After nearly 33 years, it gets a dirty look from me, and a big laugh from him.
I was once in a lounge when I overheard one exceptionally haughty professor say to another professor, “I’d explain it to you, but you simply wouldn’t understand.” He said it in such an English gentry way that it was easy to overlook that he basically said, “You’re too dumb to understand, so why waste my time.”
Now, when my wife asks for an explanation to things I’ll sometimes say, “I’d explain it to you, but you simply wouldn’t understand.”