General Chat

Who can converse with just about anyone? Do you feel at ease chatting to a boss or manager as easily as a friend.

Do you stand at a bus stop and by the time the bus arrives you know the story of their lives?

Do you make friends on holiday and within a day everyone knows your name and you theirs?

sometimes! it depends ont he stuation but ill talk to anyone and normally get the old dears life stories while waiting for the bus, or waiting to go in to see the doctor lol

Hi Hayley, I am a people person to a certain extent. I do chat at bus stops but don't usually instigate the conversation. Do make friends on holiday but not to exchange details to the extent you note, usually names and where we
come from.

Your first question is slightly different though. Yes i can converse with bosses and managers (or could when working), high ranking officers or whatever as long as I knew the subject of the conversation and what i had to say was relevant. I never thought their views were more important than mine because of their rank/position.

Ann
Glos

Yes, I am a real 'chatterbox' I love to talk and will talk to just about anyone about anything. Lol
Having said that I don't give too much personal info away though..I have always been very carefull that way...xxx

i talk to anyone and everyone lol
(well i seem to atract them lol)
As for my Boss she and i are very good mates and i can talk to her about anything.
Rosex

When my daughter was young, she used to say I would talk to anyone.

Now she is the same, and has just got a new boss, with whom she gets seems to get on with.

And yes, I still speak to anyone. It's nice to pass the time of day with someone, as perhaps you're the only person they have a conversation with all day. Especially the elderly.

no

Hi Hayley

I tend to have a wall round me but once i get to know someone......I do tell people that my OH will say hello to you a long time before i will

OMD's that makes me sound like a snob lol

Talk to people?

I have ears that seem to attract everybodies problems.They will tell me anything!

Sometimes I think that if I ever really get short of money I will take to blackmail.I am carrying secrets for half the world.

This is the problem.People are very glad to offload their problem on to me and then I am expected to keep it secret,even people I have dealt with professionally.

There was a woman once who travelled on the same bus as I did every week and she sought me out to tell me the most intimate personal details of her marital problems.When I met her in the street some time later she was very off-hand and scuttled away quickly.

I found that a little disconcerting as I had not actually asked her about her husbands latent sexual preferences.They were not something I felt pleased to know about.

I'm like that, Julie - I don't mean to come across as stand-offish but I worry that I do because I'm really shy around people that I don't know. (Sounds daft, but I think it stems from having this friend at college who I was always willing to drop anything for but who never gave anything back when I needed help. I found her quite emotionally draining so now I tend to be quite shy around people.)

If I'm with people I know or family etc, I can be quite outgoing, relatively speaking. (I'm useless at asking for anything in shops, though - not because I don't want to bother people but because - if there is a gap on the shelf where a thing I want should be - in my past experience as a shelf stacker, it's probably out of stock.)

And I can relate to that, Sharron. I attracted another friend at uni - one of these "If I think it is right, it is right" girls, who for about six months felt compelled to give me all the very intimate details of a fling she was having behind her live-in boyfriend's back. I wanted to tell her to stop telling me because I felt that she would tell me it was her life, what did I know because I'd never had a boyfriend etc but I didn't like the situation she was putting me and three other girls at uni in by telling us.

Where is Hayley? How about you Hayley??

Thanks All...Ann thats me waffle from one thing to another...lol

Julie we went to couples in Jamiaca about 5 years with some friends ...by day 2 I knew most of the hotel by name...my friend couldn't get over the fact I just walked up to anyway and would strike up a conversation...


In Vegas I was in a lift with my sister and a couple by the time we got out on the 7th floor I knew where the couple were getting married and how long they had been together and details of their first date...lol

No I'm not - tend to be reserved, which a lot of people mistake for shyness, but it isn't. Hate smalltalk but enjoy a good discussion or debate. I am a good listener, though, and very sensitive to 'atmospheres' and people's feelings.

Hi Hayley,
when I was young I used to find it difficult to talk to people
then the children came along and that made it easier .
Now I'm older I like a good chat.
June ..

I strike up a conversation with anybody, anywhere, any time!!!!

I dont open up to folk at once,but can chat once I get to know them, my oh is just like you Haley, I envy his ease with peeps, especially the ladies,lol, folk seem to gravitate to him , he is a very good listener, I think I lack confidence
and sometime come across as unfriendly.realy dont mean to.......


Jean x

I seem to attract attension but I have never been shy.....once at my Aunts house ( long story when my Dad died ) it was the first time I had met her and informed her that I was hungry as I hadn't any thing to eat all day....My Mum roared with laughter years later and said if it was one your sisters they would of sat there hungry all night till offered..

I get sent to all the questions and answer sessions at work...I am always choosen to prescent presentations.....think nothing of getting up anywhere to start off a sing song...back to Jamiaca I got up on stage and sang with a Jamiacan band....so I can honestly I am not shy...lol

Looks at Hayley
I am very shy with people I dont know

and you didnt even need a mic at peterbourgh lol

Yes definately Hayley
I love People.
I have mixed with people of all ages and find I can converse with
Little ones, Teenagers Middle Aged and Elderly People.
I find myself, and people might not agree with me but if I go up or down to their level talking to them comes easy. You also have to be a good listener.
Mum always said I could talk the Hind leg of a Donkey lol

Regards
Jackie
Jackie