Small talk

i don't like it either. but sometimes i have to do it. especially when i want to sell my insurance :0

I hate small talk my friend, to me it's so false and you just feel they are doing it because of not who you are but if you were a goose sitting there they'd still talk to you, they don't give a monkeys who or what you are, they just see it as part of the package, making small talk, sometimes I have a laugh with them because I make things up! I have the devil in me at times and when people ask me what I do I tell them anything that comes to the top of my head, they aren't really interested any how, so I could say I was the king of sheba LOL! Or my rolls royce is in the garage, who cares, they don't mean anything to me, and it probably spices their sad lives up anyhow to listen to other people's problems and lives! It's all a game and that's how I treat it, with a bit of spice here and there!

I am a registration clerk in our local hospital. I register every single person that comes into the ER and people getting lab work or xrays done. Almost every person that comes through there has to tell me their life story. Or so it seems anyway. So, yes, I make small talk all the time. When I can get a word in edgewise anyway. These people come in and just yak yak yak..Sometimes its ok cause I enjoy listening but some of them have nothing but complaints, which is understandable since they had to come to the hospital to begin with. It's just amazing some of the stuff I have heard. I never indulge any personal information...I just listen and agree when need be.

Small talk makes me nervous. I'm very shy, and I never know what too say to somebody I don't know. Some of those very personal questions make me squirm. I would never ask a stranger such things, nor do I care to be asked.

Hi Humbug, Whenever I am at the hairdresser I just like to totally relax, in fact I nearly fall asleep so the small talk annoys me. Taxi drivers well, if I want to know what is going on in my town just ask one of them they seem to know more than the police these days LOL. I am not one for small talk at all really. I am not one of these mothers at the school in the clique either. Have more going on in my life to be bothered with it. Huggles. Ellie :D

I like making small talk. It helps cut through the tension sometimes if you're nervous about something.

I hate small talk. I prefer to remain with the mouth shut in such situations. I prefer to read a good book or a magazine when I am in a waiting room for example. I hate revealing personal information to strangers and when I am pressed in such situation I wont think twice to say to someone that its none of his buisness. My wife think that I might be more tactful. However diplomacy was never my forte.

I'm really quiet in public or when I'm with strangers. And if someone would start talking to me, I would also answer back but with limitations. It's alright to have some small talks once in a while. Meeting new people and friends are good things to do these days.

I don't mind having a chit chat with strangers, but if you had a bad throat, i can understand how you feel, when your poorly you couldn't be bothered. Hope your feeling better soon

Oh well, most hairdressers that I have are gays.. and yes they are really fond of starting small talks. Asking personal thing with you. I am not against gay people but most of them are really talkative that sometimes they will go beyond the limit. No offense to the gays but I have lots of gay friends and my hair dressers are gays. I have a lot of fun with them because they are funny!! but they are really good in small talk about personal lives.

I'm like you and I love to talk! But that doesn't mean that I like chit-chat all the time. I think the part about small talk that bothers me is that it is often very fake and forced. It's almost like a sales pitch. If I feel like I'm being "charmed", I shut right down. I was (I am no longer) a dental assistant for many years and recently noticed a sales pitch from our hygienist when she cleans our teeth. I can tell that she has been taught to find one thing to compliment about every patient's teeth to improve the patients' attitude towards their smile. I've been to seminars like that! I understand that she is just doing what she's been told to do and yet I feel like a child being manipulated in a way. Other times, I just don't want to have to make a lot of effort to chat. I'd just rather be quiet for a few moments. I especially want my hair stylist to pay more attention to my hair than to being hospitable to me.

I can make polite social conversation with anyone. It goes with my job and so I do it. However, it seems to a world wide problem that hairdressers all over the world do ask personal questions and this I don't take to at all. I refuse to answer any personal questions about my family or myself. However, having said that, it seems that my family is very well known and I do live in a small place! I try to deflect it though by asking them a question a or two and getting them to answer. Blessings

I like small talks. Also I rarely start them, but I don`t mind to participate in them. They help to get rid of stress that arouses between two people. And I feel more like a friend or a sister with a person whom I speak to, and not just a customer.

a small talk is always better with anyone. but should be to the limit of the situation and not much personal too. this may not make you feel isolated in this world. we are always among the crowd or with strangers in bus train salon cab etc

No, I don't either. Especially now days. Sad to say. I try to be polite and tactful but I never give names or personal information. If I go to the same one several times that may change but not at first. Their treatment of me and consistence shows me if I want to be more indepth with her or not.

I totally agree with you on this, i dont like to make small talk to them while have my hairs cut, they just seem like to prolong the time as much as longer and try to promote their other services which annoys me so much.