You know those Bing.com comercials where someone asks a question and the person answers with a ridiculous amount of information what is not even closely related to what the question is trying to get at? I am definetly the person with the ridiculous answers who doesn’t shut up.
See some of you may read this and be a bit confused because usually I don’t tend to be very talkative. Only if I am passionate about a subject. Well the problem is that most of my summer was spent in the privacy of my home. Reading, watching TV, catching up with shows, and occationally going out with friends. This sounds reasonable. Ya until you start school again and you are bombarded with new faces, new people, and just life in general. And I mean life as in vivaciousness and excitement, you know the kind of emotions you get from people not a TV. I am out of practice when it comes to interacting with people because of my limited outings this summer.
Here are a few stories from a couple days ago where I should have shut up but the excitement of talking and interacting with new people could no longer be contained.
Example #1. I went to the coffee shop to grab coffee, because if I was to make it through a 3 hour class I needed something to keep me going. There was nobody there except for the coffee boy, barista, whatever. And he was nice and I was nice. And as I say thanx he asks me if I called him a sir. To which I respond no I said thanx. He goes on to tell me that some of the students call him sir, which perplexed me because he was maybe a few years older than me, and of course he agreed that sir would be an inappropriate name for him. I then go on to tell him how one time I was walking in best buy and an employee called me ma’am and that I was outraged because I am after all only 20 yrs old and I understand what he means. Ok Maybe it was because I was tired and it may not seem like a big deal or maybe I was just trying to relate but if I were an observer of this situation I would most definetly think that the person was trying to hard.
Example #2. I started my night class and we all had to introduce ourselves. One of the things we had to say was who is our favorite musician. I don’t really have one so he asked me what I listend to that day, I said some turkish music and he said that he went to Turkey, most people here would say oh cool. Not only did I say cool but I followed it up with My friend went there this summer, did you like it? This is in the middle of class and im having a random conversation with the profesor.
#3. My Spanish class is wonderful, full of eager young students to prove their proficiency in the area, you know those people who throw their hands up in the air every time there is a question asked. Ya I hate them too. Especially when they have no idea what they are talking about. Anyways my professor moved me to the from of the class along with about 5 other students because we prefer sitting towards the back. This guy sat next to me. Ya, the class before he stared at me everytime i smiled, kind of creepy. Anyways we get to talking because we had to discuss stuff. And I asked him if he had Chemistry next class because I thought I saw him. To which I add sorry don’t mean to be creepy but ya I thought I saw you in my class. And he was kind enough to respond with No, not at all. (very genuinely not in a sarcastic tone). Today he sat next to me again. I have to tilt my head slightly so I can see the professor shes so tiny, well short. And he kept kinda looking over at me, you know one of those like is she looking at me glances but u dont wanna look over so that way the person doesnt think that ur the one looking at them. Ya we have a very awkward relationship…its only been 3 days of class. Heres to the rest of the quarter. Its weird because everytime he walks in he looks around like where to sit and always ends up sitting somewhere at least close to me. Ok it happend 2 out of 3 times maybe im just crazy. Moral of the story, dont tell people sorry didnt mean to sound creepy, totally makes you sound like the biggest creeper and def do not open conversation with that.
Ok so I guess what I am tryin to say with this rant is that don’t spend three months in isolation, go out have fun, and meet/interact with people trust me its better than freaking out about someone talking to you. Needless to say I am shutting the hell up from now on, I need to ease into this situation and relearn what proper etiquette is for being around other people. You know mostly don’t give your life story if its not asked for and put words in peoples mouths.
The End….of this lesson.
