small talk

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marguicha @marguicha (230351) • Chile 29 Aug 21

My sister and her husband came for medical check ups and they went to visit my brother. He and his wife live 2 houses from mine but he does not invite me so I knew that this invitation came from my sister and only from her. But...

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Is Your Uniqueness Unbelievable To Some?

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 14 Oct 19

A funny thing happened to me once day, while I was sitting at the bus stop by my apartment. While I am only fluent in one language, I enjoy music in a variety of languages I don't yet understand. On this day I had downloaded some...

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Do You Have The Gift Of Gab???!!!!

Danna B. @db20747 (43419) • Washington, District Of Columbia 29 Sep 18

Always gabbin' about somethin'??!! This and That??!! Tither and Thither??!! Do You like small talk??!!!

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Anyone Else Absolutely HATE Small Talk?

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 17 Jan 18

I can't speak for the rest of the world or even the rest of North America, but up here in Canada it seems we have to endure tedious small talk to get just about anything done. At the bank, at the store, "hi, how are you?" I tend...

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Are you good at small talk?

Craft Smart @craftsmart (265) • United States 9 Nov 17

I would say I am good at small talk, but almost too good. I have difficulty connecting to people sometimes because I find it hard to talk about some topics that are difficult for me to talk about, even with friends. But then...

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conversations that only bus people have

Elizabeth @Poppylicious (11134) • United Kingdom 7 Nov 17

"I have a colleague at work who was stuck in traffic for twenty minutes last week. He didn't get home till five-thirty. Twenty minutes! Five-thirty! He doesn't know the half of it!" [i]"I got the other bus last night. It...

on the bus

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Why Do People Do This?

StacyB @Srbageldog (7716) • United States 3 Aug 17

One of my biggest pet peeves is running into someone I haven't seen in ages and having them right off the bat ask where I'm working. Because as soon as I reply "I'm still working from home," they will then demand to know how much...

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its rude to ask about money

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even monkeys could do it

none of your business

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a standard response

Elizabeth @Poppylicious (11134) • United Kingdom 12 Sep 16

A chap got on the bus this morning. Morning, good weekend? he said to his bus buddy biddy. It was okay, but it went by too quickly, she replied. She stole my line! That is my standard response to similar...

pleasantries

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Small Talk

Sophie @SophieY (891) • South Africa 24 May 16

I am not a person for many words, but when I am in company the thing that irritates me the most is when someone who has no topic of conversation tries me with their 'small talk'. I can see the weather - you don't have to give me...

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Preemptive Conversationalist

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 4 Sep 15

I don't know how you feel about it, but I find small talk to be a little difficult. Generally, one asks a few questions about a person's health, family, job or latest vacation. But small talk can be almost impossibe with a...

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hogging the conversation

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Small Talk

GreenMoo @GreenMoo (11833) 9 Dec 12

I firmly believe that small talk is a skill. I grew up with my Mum initiating conversations with people in shop queues, then worked in a sales environment for some years so have no problem with it myself at all. By comparison...

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big talk

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 16 Sep 11

There are quite a few MyLotters who find that much of what passes for discussions here is, to their taste, banal. I'm one of them, so I thought I might start off an interest targeted at the BIG talkers - those who like a subject...

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I Really Don't Do Smalltalk!!

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 8 May 11

Something came up around here, and while dealing with that situation, a person involved asked me out of the blue if my mother was coming "tomorrow" (the situation having happened last night). Thinking she meant "was I getting my...

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Master of the small talk

bounce58 @bounce58 (17380) • Canada 16 Feb 11

If you were on a date, are you comfortable making small talk? I work in a union-shop where management staff get people on the floor to do things to keep the company going. Even though it is the rank-and-file’s job to the...

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What type of chat messenger do you use?

eddyspaghetti @eddyspaghetti (1225) • United States 1 May 10

I primarily use AIM-AOL Instant Messaging for talking to most of my friends. I have noticed that people in the Philippines tend to use Yahoo and people from all over the world often use Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger. I...

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Talking dentist.

artsyfartsygypsy @artsyfartsygypsy (755) • Canada 4 Apr 10

Does anyone find it weird that a dentist will try to talk to you while your mouth is openm and they're doing work? Do you have teh ability to communicate properly while your mouth is wide open in that fashion? Im always afraid...

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What's The Best Way To Avoid Small Talk?

nocturn98 @nocturn98 (956) • Venezuela 3 Jan 10

I don't really like making small talks especially with someone I don't really know. But there are times when you get in an awkward situation and you just can't avoid it. Like when you're with someone in an elevator, or you chance...

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Smalltalk! Do you practice this? Some people start with the weather!!

Andrew @AndrewFreyne (6281) • United Kingdom 2 Feb 09

Everyone has heard of small talk! They say that small talk goes a long way in starting a conversation with someone. I find this a very difficult area and thought to myself that I would like to try this year, make more of an effort...

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Small talk

Humbug25 @Humbug25 (12540) 29 Dec 08

Just before Christmas I went and had my hair cut and because I had been singing my heart out at various carol services my voice was a bit rough and I didn't fancy making small talk with the hairdresser who I barely knew. Taxi...

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I Hate Small Talk!!!!

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 6 Aug 08

Why do people do this? What part of a person at a cafe paying attention to the computer and whatever food or drink they've orders, and not paying attention to the rest of the world is so attractive to certain people? I was sitting...

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