30 Days: Day 11
Due to conflicting schedules, I was left carless this morning and in need of a ride to work. Luckily, my Aunt Linda lives around the corner and is semi-retired, so she was nice enough to swing by and give me a ride to work.
Now, I'm not exactly the most talkative person around my extended family. This may strike those of you who know me as odd, but I very often feel like I have nothing good to say, so I just stay quiet. This probably seemed to them like something I would have grown out of in my teeenage years, but nearing the end of my 20's, it has become obvious that I'm a little kooky and can be quite quiet at times. They must wonder though, how I survive in jobs so social as kindergarten teaching and serving, since it can be so hard for me to have a simple conversation about vegetable dip until I've had a couple beers.
But today presented a unique opportunity. I would be alone in the car for 20 minutes at least with my aunt. What would we talk about? It was time to put my social skills to the test and make simple conversation with a family member. It wasn't the first time I'd spoken with her obviously, but the first time I can remember being with her alone for a good minute without anything to distract us, like vegetable dip, or beer. So, I tried my best to keep any conversation at all going...and failed miserably. Well, maybe not that miserably. We did finally find a topic of conversation we could latch onto when we began to discuss the difficulties of getting a good haircut. Sadly, just as it was getting rolling she dropped me off at work.
So in the end it only took 18 minutes to get a good conversation started, with only 1-2 minutes lost in uncomfortable silences, and I'm gonna say that is progress made! Now, I can try to shave some time off that and before you know it, I'll be chatting for days!
Now, I'm not exactly the most talkative person around my extended family. This may strike those of you who know me as odd, but I very often feel like I have nothing good to say, so I just stay quiet. This probably seemed to them like something I would have grown out of in my teeenage years, but nearing the end of my 20's, it has become obvious that I'm a little kooky and can be quite quiet at times. They must wonder though, how I survive in jobs so social as kindergarten teaching and serving, since it can be so hard for me to have a simple conversation about vegetable dip until I've had a couple beers.
But today presented a unique opportunity. I would be alone in the car for 20 minutes at least with my aunt. What would we talk about? It was time to put my social skills to the test and make simple conversation with a family member. It wasn't the first time I'd spoken with her obviously, but the first time I can remember being with her alone for a good minute without anything to distract us, like vegetable dip, or beer. So, I tried my best to keep any conversation at all going...and failed miserably. Well, maybe not that miserably. We did finally find a topic of conversation we could latch onto when we began to discuss the difficulties of getting a good haircut. Sadly, just as it was getting rolling she dropped me off at work.
So in the end it only took 18 minutes to get a good conversation started, with only 1-2 minutes lost in uncomfortable silences, and I'm gonna say that is progress made! Now, I can try to shave some time off that and before you know it, I'll be chatting for days!
posted by CJ at 5:04 PM
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