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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Small talk
Do you make small talk with people when out? I am waiting in the lobby of a building, texting DH to say I am here and this young woman (30s) starts rambling about what did people do with their hands prior to electronic devices. I just responded with a smile and she will.not. shut her mouth.
Re: Small talk
This exactly!!! I purposely wear my sunglasses as much as possible inside and don't make eye contact with anyone now because I know they'll comment on my pregnancy. I haaaate it.
I also hate small talk with extended family (DH's side and mine), friends, etc. I was at 2 baby showers and an engagement party this weekend and it was so hard. I find the few people I know at any social gtg and never leave them, lol.
I hate small talk. I put bitchface on so people will leave me alone.
Old men always seem to talk to me. It's annoying.
The bolded is me. DH is the.exact.opposite. He is KING of small talk with strangers.
LB, didn't watch the Marriage Ref but it sounds like DH's and my kind of issue. heh
I'm not a small talk person. Not even with my own family. My brother is a small talker/BSer. Everyone loves him and probably thinks I'm a Biiitch. So, there's that. I just got back from a family reunion. Am I the only one who has preferred people you like to catch up with at these things? It seems like most people; it's the same conversation over and over. And they don't retain it, so it's pointless....and I'd just rather not talk to them. Example:
Upon the first time we talked at the reunion, Aunt: "Hiii, Congratulations!"
Me: "Thank you very much."
Aunt: "Yeah, you're a married woman now."
Me: ? "...Oh? I got married almost 3 years ago. I thought you were congratulating me on my 20 week baby bump?"
I don't expect everyone to know how long I've been married, but if you care...or even know me at all? You should know it wasn't just yesterday.
A lady did this to me at Publix yesterday. I'm standing in front of the Luna bars and she walks up to me and starts babbling about how the ensure (which is alllllll the way down at the other end of the aisle) was blah-blah-blah price at Winn-Dixie and they were offering $2 off, but that's the price they always sell it for at Publx & they tricked her into thinking she got a good deal....followed by some more blah,blah,blah. I just stood there w/a blank expression, Luna bar in each hand, trying to figure out what in the hell I did to actively get myself into this conversation. After she left (I literally didn't say one word to her) I still stood there dumbfounded for a few seconds until I heard DH laughing at me.
People like that exist?
I effing hate small talk.
One of my all time pet peeves is when the check out people at Publix try to small talk with customers which always slows them down so that they are ringing things up at the speed of whale shiit in an ice flow. I will fly into a rage one of these days over this.
SAME! DH and I went to pick up papa johns a couple of months ago.. there are 2 chairs. Elderly couple is sitting down in them, so DH and I stand off to the side and are chit-chatting. Elderly man stands up and INSISTS I take his chair.. I couldn't find a polite way to say "you're an old man and you need the seat more than I do."... so now it's me and his wife sitting next to each other... I swear I think she said somethign about the weather and then it was PAINFUL SILENCE for abt 10mins till our pizza was ready.. DH? He and the old guy were BFFs and had discussed fishing, running, airports, etc etc etc etc.
Yeah...DH is the exact same way. My parents were laughing one day because he said something to them about only being on one flight in his whole life where he didn't know anyone. My parents were like WTF, how many people do you know and why are they always flying, and DH was like, 'no, I mean where I didn't make friends and didn't have anyone at all to talk to'.
ETA: Meanwhile, DH's daily question for me is 'who did you make cry today?'
Haha. That's hilarious. See...I consider myself to be pretty social & I don't mind talking to someone in this situation if they have interesting things to talk about and they can keep the conversation that they started going without being awkward. At the same time however, I kind of feel like," You SEE my book out, I'm not making eye contact with you...STFU." I'm torn.
ETA: Also, just because we managed to have a decent conversation in the first hour does not mean that we need to be BFF's for the whole flight. If the conversation has played itself out, you do not need to keep trying to fill the silence because suddenly we "know each other." It's ok to go back to being strangers.
Let's try this again...