The Four Levels of Social Entrapment
Sep. 23rd, 2010 12:11 pmThis, particularly the first one, is 100% me The Four Levels of Social Entrapment.
There isn't much I hate worse than bumping into someone I knew it high school and being forced to be cheerful and pretend interest in someone I haven't seen in twelve years, particularly if I didn't like them much THEN. Worse, I tend to bump into those people at work and when you're in a retail setting, there ain't no escaping. You just have to sit there and fake a grin while they tell you alllll about their last divorce and their ten kids. (I did not make that up. That really happened.)
You are trapped and no matter how much you make little abortive moves away from them, your eyes darting towards the back room and escape, they ramble on and on, and you keep thinking of all the work you COULD be doing if this person would just let you get in a word edgewise and get some sweet, sweet freedom.
For someone who works with the public, I'm really not that fond of it. *G*
There isn't much I hate worse than bumping into someone I knew it high school and being forced to be cheerful and pretend interest in someone I haven't seen in twelve years, particularly if I didn't like them much THEN. Worse, I tend to bump into those people at work and when you're in a retail setting, there ain't no escaping. You just have to sit there and fake a grin while they tell you alllll about their last divorce and their ten kids. (I did not make that up. That really happened.)
You are trapped and no matter how much you make little abortive moves away from them, your eyes darting towards the back room and escape, they ramble on and on, and you keep thinking of all the work you COULD be doing if this person would just let you get in a word edgewise and get some sweet, sweet freedom.
For someone who works with the public, I'm really not that fond of it. *G*