The AznGeek

People sometimes don’t listen to me. They cut me off mid sentence or interrupt me while I’m making a point. It happens more often than I observe when other people in a group talk. They go back and forth like they rehearsed it before. Sort of like tv. It’s kinda uncanny. Maybe I speak too softly. But it sounds loud enough to me.

I can say something that somehow everyone pretends not to hear or just skips over like I haven’t said anything. It’s like how one of your companions in Neverwinter Nights would comment on a situation and everyone just gets on with the conversation that would happen exactly as when that character wasn’t brought along.

I prefer to shut up and listen in a group. Sometimes minus the listen part. I imagine I need to learn a higher form of societal interaction. For example, compulsive lying and/or chronic brown nosing. Agree with everything being said. At higher levels, use superlatives and extremes. Advanced communication techniques such as replying to a question with a question. Most famously the phrase “What do you think?” Buying time to formulate an answer by repeating the whole thing that’s just been said and adding “is cool” at the back.

Before you know it I’ll have made president!