Have not been able to learn/understand the art of talking on a phone, even after 24 yrs of existence. I'm not kidding. I just don't know how to talk on the phone, be it the land-line or the cellphone.
To a regular person, this may seem trivial. What's the big deal in picking up a phone and talking away. But to people who think a whole lot more than necessary and thus bungle up even the simplest of things, I think i will make sense.
How to pick up calls from ppl you don't like and not leave those calls for later(which'll never come)
How to initiate a conversation - not just the hello, but the stuff that comes between the hello and the main reason behind the call
How to handle the long pauses in between - small time slices of complete silence are unpalatable, just too complicated to deal with
How to think of pleasantries that would be appropriate
How to convincingly convey those pleasantries and not sound like a recitation exercise
How to mask your voice when you've just got out of bed but aren't supposed to sound like that
How to cut short the call and say goodbye
And so the struggle continues...may be 3G may come to my rescue with stuff like video calling
To a regular person, this may seem trivial. What's the big deal in picking up a phone and talking away. But to people who think a whole lot more than necessary and thus bungle up even the simplest of things, I think i will make sense.
How to pick up calls from ppl you don't like and not leave those calls for later(which'll never come)
How to initiate a conversation - not just the hello, but the stuff that comes between the hello and the main reason behind the call
How to handle the long pauses in between - small time slices of complete silence are unpalatable, just too complicated to deal with
How to think of pleasantries that would be appropriate
How to convincingly convey those pleasantries and not sound like a recitation exercise
How to mask your voice when you've just got out of bed but aren't supposed to sound like that
How to cut short the call and say goodbye
And so the struggle continues...may be 3G may come to my rescue with stuff like video calling
1 comment:
Bro!
U really think a lil too much.. "Lite le yaaron" :D
may b one trouble i always have on a call is "how to say no to a person" (like goin for shoppin..or eating.. or for some random stuff)"..
i stil dont kno hw ppl master this art! (for me its stil a trouble) :(
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