Small Talk
One of thing where I have to become more English and less…me… is small talk. I can’t do it! If I don’t have something really important to say or to ask, I just don’t! But I can see the advantages and I can see how rude I may look for not being able to do it.
Example: Gym dressing room, had my OU swipe card showing. A woman asks me if I work there. I say yes. She asks me where, I reply. She says ‘I’ve just retired from the OU’ I say ok. And that was it. I can see it in her face she was expecting me to say something and be nice, but nothing… I said bye and left.
The alternative would be me saying: ‘Oh really? Where did you work? For how long? Who do you know there?’, etc. And the next time I saw her I would actually remember her face, talk to her a bit more, even about other things, and I could ask her things of my personal and professional interest, all that kind of things. But no… I just said ok and left.
Need to improve my PR skill. It is essential these days!
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I also have the same thing. My problem is I am trying to be too clever.
And lets be fair – I don’t really care what these people have to say!
That was my way of thinking. But a lot can be gained from it like new friendships, work contacts, etc. And my problem is that I never did it so I don’t know how to do it. Need to practice
I’m terrible at all that too. Find it much easier to chat online – it gives me chance to think of things to say.