Mordecai
destractivegodofdarkness
Registered: Jan 2001
Location: library
Posts: 19584 |
Ya'll just need to learn to love the sound of your own voice, then you'll rattle off small talk with no problems because you've always got something to say.
Thje closest I've come to this situation was sitting in a bar one evening. I'd just gotten there, and I was expecting some friends, but they lived quite some ways away and I knew they wouldn't be there for a while. I put my name on the list for a pool table, ordered a beer, took of my jacket, put it over the back of a chair and sat down. I hadn't even taken a sip of my beer when a very attractive woman came in and sat down just a few chairs over. She ordered a beer and looked around the room and caught me looking at her. She smiled (very nice smile) and said, "Hello" I responded in kind and sipped my beer and turned my attention to the hockey game on the telly. After a few moments I hread from somewhere off to the side, "You like hockey?" The magic word "hockey" caused me to turn my head to see who had spoken and the pretty woman was looking at me again. "I'm sorry, were you speaking to me?" I asked. She looked around at the empty seats surrounding us and responded, "I'm not really in the habit of talking to myself." Boy, I nearly shot beer out my nose on that one. She then went on to tell me about how she found it annoying that people rarely spoke to strangers in bars and the conversation began. Half an hour later we were deeply engrossed in conversation about art when the bartender let me know that there was a table open. My friends hadn't arrived yet so she joined my at the pool table and proceeded to beat me severely, but I had known I was in trouble from the moment she broke, her stroke ended with her extended across the whole damn table and I was damn sure one of the balls would break. Anyways, we played pool till my friends arrived, at which point i was endlessly amused by my friends faces, since I was playing pool and chatting with a stunning woman. Eventually she said she had to go meet her friends(she, like me had been killing time waiting for slackers). I asked for her phone number and got shot down, she said she was seeing someone, so I gave her my phone number in case she felt like playing pool again. Never heard from her again, haven't seen her since, but the lesson here is, don't think about it, don't try to be clever, just let your mouth run, trust me, most people can conversate just fine if they just let it flow.
-m
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