Social Interactions Blog

Answer a Question with a Joke

September 26th, 2006

One thing that tends to happen with me is whenever I get a lot of attention, I get abit shy and my heart starts to beat a little quicker.

This happened today when everyone at work (6 other people) commented that I eat a lot. Like normally, I started to explain why..

breakfast does not fill me up..

I try to space out my meals..

etc.

Boring stuff. As the article Social Vibing explains very well, it is not what you say, it is how you interact. I gave up an good opportunity to interact and vibe by giving answers that people can only go ‘ahh, OK’ to, and goes with it the conversation.

What I could have done was to joke about it, and say..

Yea, I’ve got a Tardis for a stomach!

From which people can bounch off jokes etc. To give more of a context, I am a slim guy. And for those that don’t know, Tardis is a phone box from a popular UK TV show by the name of Doctor Who. Inside this ordinary-sized phone box is a huge room.

So, social lesson learnt: vibe.

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