First and foremost I would like to
make it clear that I have no problem with a stop and chat with my friends.
However, if we are not that close and I don’t really know you, we met once
while we were out – you are on, “Hey!” and keep walking status. Unless we have
been properly introduced and had a conversation a stop and chat is not on the
cards. For a stop and chat I need some background information to keep the
conversation rolling.
Stop and chats can be awkward and
horrible. Awkward pauses will be the death of me. When I try to walk by someone
and give them a polite hello, the awkwardness begins when they want to keep a
conversation going by yelling after me. And if I don’t stop I’m the asshole? We
have to stop and chat now like there’s all this information that needs to be
shared.
The artificial small talk in the
stop and chat is inexcusable. If you are going to stop me I need a good reason,
give me something substantial. Mondays. Mondays I might stop and chat with you.
There might be some news from the weekend, some gossip, maybe a funny story. I
need to be enticed by the conversation in a stop and chat; otherwise I may
never stop again. The little chit-chat, I don’t like it, I like to have real
conversations with people.
I have a terrible habit. It almost
welcomes the stop and chat. When people say, “Hey!” when we are passing, I much
too often respond with “Hey! How are ya?” What do I expect from this? They can
either; be rude and ignore my question and we can go our separate ways, or they
can stop me and tell me how they are and immediately we are engaged in a stop
and chat flooded with the futile exchange of the smallest of talk. Evidently I
need a new go-to response to “Hey!” Who would’ve thunk it?
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