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mntn13
Phoenix
Joined: Jun 07, 2011
Posts: 1006
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 Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject: functioning out in the real world |
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| Does anyone else continually or repeatedly make mistakes like this? In hindsight, I know. But when asked questions that I really shoudn't answer I simply state the truth. Today I told someone - a total stranger - the dates that I would be out of town and my place would be empty and unattended. I may as well invited them to rob it. I simply cannot seem to figure out when to make fake small talk; you know, the little lies that normal people make all the time. |
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bucephalus
LOVES the woman who loves the man who's out of spa
Joined: Jan 27, 2009
Age: 30
Posts: 1847
Location: with Hyperlexian
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I wouldn't worry about that. all the companies you use in order to arrange a holiday abroad will almost certainly know your address, including your employer. the risk is everywhere, it's just one of those things. Regarding being honest too often, i can identify with that. it can be annoying |
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Unspecified
Sea Gull
Joined: Jan 05, 2012
Age: 45
Posts: 207
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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I used to work in a theatre (lights and sound tech), and the most uncomfortable situation I knew was when I had to talk to the performers after a piece that I thought was rubbish. Trying to say something not rude to someone who has just spent two hours on stage in a small intimate black box theatre, often stuff they had written themselves, is really hard. I would squirm and look away and try to think of something, ANYTHING, positive to say about it. After a while I came up with a way of getting half out of it: I would make up (if necessary) some technical mistake on my part and talk about that.
-Hey, what did you think?
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-uh... I really screwed up the lights in the third scene, I hope nobody noticed.
Then I some times didn't have to express my opinion. |
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mntn13
Phoenix
Joined: Jun 07, 2011
Posts: 1006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:16 am Post subject: |
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If I work on it, maybe practice with my kids at home, I could train myself to pause and that'd give me time to think of something to say that doesn't reveal facts I later regret sharing.
bucephalus, yes, I tend to obsess about it and it is just one of those things - I can relax about it when I'm reminded of that. Still, I need to teach myself how not to tell strangers stuff I really shouldn't. |
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