My last blog post got me started thinking about other situations that boggle me ... the main one that comes to mind is that when I am in the back of a car, taxi, sitting at an airport gate waiting to board a flight, anywhere where I am reading something why must a stranger start talking to me. I feel that by reading, I am making it very clear that I do not want to talk to you, now when I answer with only one word then continue reading, that should be your second sign that I don't have any interest in this conversation.
If I don't know you, I do not care about your opinion on the weather, our delayed flight or the current state of our healthcare in the United States (unless, of course it agrees with mine).
I had the pleasure of riding in the back of a taxi en route home from the airport this past Monday. The most pleasant of drivers, asked me how my flight / trip was - I said my standard "wonderful" to both and he discontinued conversation only to ask me once if his erratic driving was messing up my feverish texting/emailing on my blackberry in the backseat. I love him!
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9 years ago
Then again, had you not had a talkative and persistant airport shuttle driver the previous week, you never would have met the talented Sir Charles Neville
ReplyDeletethe ESTEEMED Sir Charles .. sister, you are so right.
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