Abrupt Ends.


How often do you find yourself engaged in a conversation that you don't wish to be in and that you'd rather eat a rotten egg than to talk? Due to my "foot-in-mouth" syndrome, I frequently find myself in one of those situations. What do I do to escape? I have only two options: 1) Talk about squirrels. 2) Talk about the weather. Where the latter is a deliberate mean to avoid the conversation. The former...well, is also an unquestionable response to my reluctance for the topic. (I used to only talk about squirrels, but I figure variety is the spice of life! hehehe.)

Let's examine a case study. We have a boy and a girl about to engage in a relationship-ish conversation.

Girl: "Is there a difference between seeing someone and dating someone?"
Boy: "Yes, the two are different, but there's a fuzzy area between the two."
Girl: "Which is less serious?"
Boy: "Seeing someone. If you wanted to know, I think we're in that fuzzy area."
[The initial intent for the conversation was so the Girl could probe at their quasi relationship status, but she quickly changes her mind realizing that this conversation can lead to no good.]
Girl: "Wow. I didn't know that."
Boy: "If I haven't told you before, let me tell you now...I do enjoy our time together."
[Girl panics...She opens her mouth to speak, then stops, then tries to say something else, but then pauses again. Finally, after a few seconds.]
Girl: "So...How's the weather?"
[Boy chuckles]

And so ends the conversation. =) So there you have it, my example of an abrupt ending.