The intolerant

11. The intolerant

People are what they are and objecting to belligerence, their rudeness due to the constant interruptions is not the same as obsessing about someone’s hand gestures. Hand gestures can add to the story no matter how frenzied. We all have oddball twitches and mannerisms that are either piquant or off putting according to who is making the judgement.

12. Me and myself

Failure to take on board the comments and ideas of others is the crime of conversation. We respond by keeping it relevant to the subject they started. We include what they are saying rather than divert it to what matters to us.

Looking away all the time and changing the subject is the habit of the hopeless. People like talking about themselves far more than anything else. Whether it about their job, their holidays or how marvellous their children are. However, some characters always seem to have more dramatic things going on which must be announced to all and sundry. “Those with the least to say, talk the most.” Allowable on occasions but irritating if it happens all the time.

If you have an interest in someone you need only keep the subject revolving around them. They will spiel endlessly giving you a chance of getting closer in their affection for you. Some can find it exhausting after a long while however, so learn when to make it more two-way. People that want to build up self-confidence will listen hard. They will spend much more time listening than talking. This is standard practice at first. It will not work if you can’t make sufficient eye contact. It really fails if you show more interest in fiddling with some device all the time as this can be the height of rudeness.