Hey! Whodya-think-you-are? I’m not that way, okay? I mean, I’m flattered, but not interested, right?
Oh, well, fine. Sorry. But it seemed like you were leering at me.
No, I get it. Yeah, I believe you. You’re so right. This meeting is dull. And we are the only two people here making sense.
Conspiratorial, sure. I see it now.
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That sounds like a real-life scenario. It would gross me out 🙂
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He’s not someone I’d want to be buddies with
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Smooth.
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Isn’t he just!
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How to make friends and influence people…
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He’s a man’s man
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They’re not going to fall for that line, are they? Surely #MeToo movement has put a stop to this sort of thing. Probably not.
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Probably not
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Ah sweet wishful thinking. Win some, lose some.
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The industry depends on him losing more than he wins
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Careful at whom you wink. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Or what you intend by it
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A wink is not a contract!
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Not even an unambigous communication
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That must have been a totally boring meeting.
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As so many are
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Yup. I always wished I could bring my knitting to those tedious, usually pointless, meetings.
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Totally believable dialogue!
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Thanks so much, Liz
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Body language is an inexact science at best. At least they talked it out.
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Yup. It was close to fisticuffs
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We don’t all speak the same social cue language. Sometimes, I think cues are as specific as fingerprints.
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It’s the source of many inter-cultural misunderstandings
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Altogether realistic dialogue. One man’s smile is another man’s leer. Is this how wars get started?
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Thanks so much, Dora. I think wars tend to be started over more strategic interests than wounded pride, but there’s no doubt good communication is essential to halting them
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Ah, making friends, I see. 🙂
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Spreading a little sunshine wherever he goes
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A wink can mean so many things…
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And the line between chuminess and outrage is so thin
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Well, communication is only 25% verbal. At least he wasn’t circling his lips with his tongue.
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We must be grateful for small mercies
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hmmm … no thank you? 😉
Well done, though!
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Thanks so much
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they could read each other like a book, don’t they? 🙂
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Yes. Unfortunately not the same book
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I like how you capture the boredom and how the minds wander to other ideas. A meeting without focus is very very dull, indeed.
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Thanks so much, James
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Hmmmm.Never triend that one. 🙂
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It’s fraught with peril
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Well I don’t know what to believe, good tale well told.
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Perhaps that’s one job of fiction? Making us less certain of what to believe? Or perhaps it’s the opposite
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its absolutely the job of fiction
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Illicit whispers. Like passing notes at the back of class though he clearly isn’t interested… Well… maybe
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He may be protesting a little too much
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Lots of creepy subtext here. Wonder what this meeting is about!
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I don’t think they have any idea either what the meeting is about
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I like the creepiness of the story – I reckon a wink is always conspiratorial !
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Nudge, nudge, wink, wink
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Winking strangers always creep me out. Yet some winkers (wankers?) think it’s endearing.
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Yes, they do, don’t they
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