I see no word salad in any of these examples. Every single word of every single sentence answers the question what did you do today?
For the sake of example, salad fixin's could be added to the above, but I have trouble speaking in hypotheticals.
Taking one of MR's actual statements:
You know, I spent 45 minutes
an hour
trying to get Dylan to wake up and, you know, and helping him
saying, you know, Dylan, Im going down, cos he had talked to me about going to see his friend, Ryan
that morning, but he wasnt having no part of it
which is not uncommon for him. I mean, you cant get him to bed and you cant get him up. Pretty much how it is when hes not at school to deal with, which is most of the time when hes up here, although he had a school bus stop right down the street, so he could ride the bus from the school up here if I was home, or he could ride it to his moms house, which was a thing of beauty.
because her and I didnt have to deal with transporting him.
The bolded part does not answer the question or expand the answer, IMO, it is totally unrelated.
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