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Valuable Insights on Communications | by Illiad | 2009-02-03 11:42:01 |
| How people talk is interesting |
by UGuardian |
2009-02-03 12:12:10 |
One example has been bugging me a lot lately. Mom latches onto an idea with a death grip and automatically assumes $idea is what is being talked about, regardless of new information. This leads to absurd conversations.
One example happened yesterday. We're fixing our dinners. Mom got out two dinner plates and her cherry soda. I was about to get a plate out for my dinner, but stopped when I noticed that she wasn't using one of the plates she got out. This resulted in the following conversation:
Me: "Is that plate mine or yours?"
Mom: "No, it's mine; you drank yours already!"
Me: Huh?
She was stuck on "soda" and therefore I must have been asking if that was her soda or mine, despite having said "plate".
This seems to be happening more and more frequently, and I find it annoying and a bit insulting. Either her hearing's going rapidly, she's going senile abruptly or she's not listening to what I'm saying. The latter is the most likely, hence why it's coming off as insulting. |
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