[ WP ] Violating Grice 's Maxims

He was killing time in front of his computer. Staring blankly at the overly-bright default theme for reddit. The television was loud in the background, completely ignored. He thought ponderously as his fingers fell on the keyboard. He wanted to write. The prompt had caught his attention long ago, and the cursor blinked waiting on more input as he stroked his goatee. 
 
 It was n't so much a'writing prompt,' he thought to himself, but probably closer to'constrained writing.' But he was new to this sub forum, so he was n't really certain. He paused again, and sat thinking about which one of the maxims he would violate. He re-read the stipulations. 
 
 He stared at the unlit fireplace for a moment, and smirked. That's pretty irrelevant, he thought. He had a moment of self-doubt and panicked. Is it really irrelevant then? If it has a purpose in the story, and it's obvious? So he decided to leave the bit about the fireplace out of his post. 
 
 This is getting a little strange, I should probably switch to a sock puppet account, he thought to himself as he read what he had already written. Besides, he added, my other account could use some comment karma. He copied the text, opened up another browser, and found the post and pasted it. Perhaps he should use RES. 
 
 When he reloaded the post, he noticed someone else had finally posted their own take on the writing prompt. Maybe I should just trash this all, he thought, the only reason I felt compelled to submit anything was because I thought this post needed some love. 
 
 He noticed the post had had 15 upvotes, but noone had commented or added a story. He did n't really like the prompt, but he just wanted to write something, so he figured why not. But now that someone else had posted, he closed his browser, got up and drank some ice cold RC cola.
