“Say again……”

Don’t you hate people who say that? Instead of saying, “Sorry?” – a polite apology for not hearing you, they say “Say again”, commanding you to repeat yourself as though you’re to blame for their failure to hear you. Now I know that, when he sits at the piano, Sir Elton looks increasingly like Mrs. Mills. But back in 1976, he wrote this prescient masterpiece which foresaw the decline of simple courtesy in the 21st century.