Bruised New Year
The day before yesterday, W called with PC problems. Could Search come over the next day and help him out? Oh, and I was welcome too ;)
I was kind of looking forward to it, so yesterday afternoon we took our bikes and drove there. While Search and W fixed the PC, T and I talked. For three hours. Well, actually, T talked for 2h55m and I got two sentences in sideways. T has chronic verbal diarrhoea, and in the last years it's not always been easy to deal with her. This time around, conversation, though still dominated by her, was quite pleasant.
So in the evening, when Search had invited a couple of guys to play boardgames, I decided to return and sit with T again.
This time I changed my strategy a bit - every time I thought I could tell a story that would fit with one of hers, I just started blabbering. We had fun for four hours. When I left, she called out "Be careful, drive safely!" which I did, until I hit the pavement 50m from our apartment.
Talk about starting the New Year in bruises!
I was kind of looking forward to it, so yesterday afternoon we took our bikes and drove there. While Search and W fixed the PC, T and I talked. For three hours. Well, actually, T talked for 2h55m and I got two sentences in sideways. T has chronic verbal diarrhoea, and in the last years it's not always been easy to deal with her. This time around, conversation, though still dominated by her, was quite pleasant.
So in the evening, when Search had invited a couple of guys to play boardgames, I decided to return and sit with T again.
This time I changed my strategy a bit - every time I thought I could tell a story that would fit with one of hers, I just started blabbering. We had fun for four hours. When I left, she called out "Be careful, drive safely!" which I did, until I hit the pavement 50m from our apartment.
Talk about starting the New Year in bruises!