The winding roads of conversations

@CRK109 (14558)
United States
March 29, 2017 3:59pm CST
Have you ever taken the time to see how conversations travel? They begin at one point and then, over time and perspectives, take so many twists and turns that they end up in completely different places! Someone begins a conversation about a food item. People talk about whether or not they like that food item. But then someone talks about a country where that food item is held in great esteem. And suddenly, the conversation turns to the foods of different countries. And then someone mentions a trip they took to one of those countries. Now the conversation turns to trips people have taken to various places around the globe! Someone mentions a cruise they've taken and now the conversation goes to cruise lines and which is the best! It's so much fun to watch conversations move from topic to topic. Sometimes they seem to have a life all their own! Claudia
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
29 Mar 17
What weird and wonderful webs we weave...
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (111322)
• El Paso, Texas
29 Mar 17
Butt watt about whacky??? Thanks for the heads up
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
30 Mar 17
@CRK109 Thank you!
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
oh that's wonderful!!!! Glorious picture you've made with your words!
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (111322)
• El Paso, Texas
29 Mar 17
Only sometimes? Heck, every time I've gotten involved in one of the lengthy conversations here on Mylot it jumps all over the place because each person is commenting on a comment made except after a while no one knows whose comment is being commented on
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (111322)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Mar 17
Well, you do have a knack for trackin @DaddyEvil but even you have to admit that some of these threads, although fun, can get cornfeuuzzzin.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
31 Mar 17
Now that is NOT quite true, Ann! You know I can keep track of the conversational thread...
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
There are some conversations that can go on forever and cover so much ground. And others fall and just drop off the earth as if they never existed in the first place. One never knows where their words will go. Or if they will stop short.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (326467)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Mar 17
You're right. Once a conversation gets started it can go in all sorts of directions.
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
it's so much fun to see where a conversation can go if there's enough interest!
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Reine25
@Lucky15 (37346)
• Philippines
30 Mar 17
yesterday, i had a convo with the accountant, they offered me a cold sweet treat, i turned it down due to my teeth sensitivity, then the convo goes from the cold sweet to teeth, to our dentists :))
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
31 Mar 17
You know, @Lucky15, I am having trouble believing you turned down anything, let alone sweet treat!
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
hahaha And there you have it! In the blink of an eye, conversations turn corners and race into other areas!
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Reine25
@Lucky15 (37346)
• Philippines
31 Mar 17
@DaddyEvil hahaha. I have too...for now
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Chris Bergstrom
@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
30 Mar 17
It reminds me Theatre class where we had to start a scene about one thing and a person had to jump in to take our place and they would have to choose a word or something in the scene to begin from to change the scene.
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
Now that's a brilliant exercise! To have to do something like that on purpose is so much more difficult than when it happens by itself. That had to be a lot of fun!
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Chris Bergstrom
@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
31 Mar 17
@CRK109 Yes it was so much fun i miss that
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fishtiger58
@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Mar 17
Yea it's pretty amazing how that happens. @TheHorse wrote a post some time ago and me and another mylotter talked and talked and talked on that post. Back when they told you how many comments you had on a post we had over a thousand comments. It was great fun.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
31 Mar 17
@CRK109 OMG! Claudia, you would never believe everywhere that conversation went! tiger and mommaj weren't the only ones making that thread grow!
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
Wow that's pretty amazing! And I'm sure you covered a lot of territory throughout those comments!
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fishtiger58
@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
1 Apr 17
@CRK109 Every topic under the sun. @DaddyEvil, yup you and Horse were also involved. I had to keep up or get lost there were so many comments.
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Always smiling
@allknowing (130233)
• India
3 Apr 17
I have a friend who is expert at that. She will start for example telling us about her holiday abroad where she meets an aunt and then the conversation ends with that aunt's grandchildren
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Always smiling
@allknowing (130233)
• India
4 Apr 17
@CRK109 We all tolerate her because of her good nature.
Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
4 Apr 17
She sounds like someone fun to have a conversation with!
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
29 Mar 17
I've often found myself at an unexpected point in a conversation and wondered how in the world we got there. It is kind of fun backtracking through the turns to figure out just what happened.
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
Yes! That's what happened to me that led me to this very conversation! You stop and think...but werent' we talking about something else? lol
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
29 Mar 17
My thought processes do the same thing
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
Words really can bring us to so many different places all in the blink of an eye!
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paigea
@paigea (35774)
• Canada
30 Mar 17
Mine too @jaboUK
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
31 Mar 17
I have noticed things just like that here on myLot, Claudia! (Long time, no see! How have you been doing?) In some cases the change in the direction is caused by accident... but get too close to some topics and watch how many people try to throw a wrench into the works to change to a new direction! It happens... It sometimes happens a LOT!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
2 Apr 17
@CRK109 You would be more than welcome to get lost on some of these threads with us, Claudia! Hmmm... many of the people who have "Liked" this discussion join me quite often in long and rambling discussions here. There are several that are currently ongoing now.
Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
2 Apr 17
Hey! It's great to see you again, too! I love taking a conversation and turning it around. And taking as many people as I can with me!
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Gary Marsh
@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
29 Mar 17
OH yes conversations can lead on to so many other things.
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paigea
@paigea (35774)
• Canada
30 Mar 17
I do enjoy that about conversations. Fun when it happens here.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
2 Apr 17
@paigea OH! Surely you don't mean MY imagination, right? (Be careful how you reply to that, paigea!)
DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
31 Mar 17
You need to help us make some of those long conversations even longer, paigea! You do realize we'd welcome you in helping us when we are destroying people's threads, right?
paigea
@paigea (35774)
• Canada
31 Mar 17
@DaddyEvil I pop in when I can but I can not keep up with the crazy imaginations some of you have.
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Ron Rybs
@Ronrybs (17925)
• London, England
30 Mar 17
I enjoy the way you can start off talking about one subject and it seems that in a blink you've moved onto another a thousand miles removed
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
it's so much fun! Without even realizing what's happening, you can go from one topic to another and just keep going!
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April
@thislittlepennyearns (58290)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
29 Mar 17
It is also interesting to see how peoples minds work, and how they make the connections needed to get those winding conversations from point A to point z.
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
We really do learn a lot from one another in those conversations. One person can choose a happy, lively turn while another choose a more morose turn. All from the same beginning. And those of us who sit and watch get little clues! lol
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Jeanne Marie
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
30 Mar 17
It's surprising how long some interactions last!
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Claudia Kirkland
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
30 Mar 17
When there's great interest in a topic, there can sometimes be almost no end to them! I love when that happens!
Jeanne Marie
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
31 Mar 17
@CRK109 It's fun to follow even if you don't participate in that particular conversation.