awkward silences!

I think meeting new people is an amazing experience or its just torture...am I right? you go to a random party or an office party...it’s a hoot or you want to shoot yourself at that very second...I think beginning conversations are allright. how are you? what do u do? do you like it? then you don’t know what to say because you have no idea what her interests are like. sometimes it’s even more difficult if there is nothing to compliment about...

What do you say to someone who has nothing worth complimenting...trust me I have been in that puddle a few times...I feel the silences itch so I say something like ...oh I like your top! I made that mistake once...I said it and she bought me the exact same top...it was this really really bright red one with some kind of shoe lace looking web on the top half of the shirt....red on a dusky girl? r u serious? what was she thinking?? maybe if I was Bipasha Basu and could afford the expensive makeup woman I would consider it....I mean I didn’t realize my compliment would go this far...so I decided ok I better make sure my compliments actually reflect what I think ...at least 50%....

Yea so after the random chit chat...u go..hmmm so it’s a lot hotter today... and they go on to say no it was a lot more hotter yesterday ...hmm is that so? very intriguing...I am thinking to myself I probably didn’t notice coz I snoozed all of yesterday...anyway there is really nothing to say so before I ran this through my head my mouth says..hmm yes Doha has a lot of cats ...oh the one outside my house is sort of blind...it doesn’t seem to move...I have honked and put my lights on too...I actually had to get out of the car and run behind it! what a day! I really hope she didn’t think I was demented ....'amusing' would have worked for me. I think phone conversations if it’s getting boring...u can always say...oh ok I gotta go? what do u do when you’re stuck in the person's car and u know it’s going to be an hour long........damn it why didn’t I bring my mp3 player (yes I know what ur thinking, my god she doesn’t have an iPod! yes I don’t! it’s still on my wish list) so I am sitting in this person's car with my parents and there’s nothing to talk about...except the weather.....don’t u find conversations about the weather so excruciating...I think it’s a very western concept. I will tell u people in the east do not care. it’s raining yea so big deal I still gotta go to work....people in the west have to analyze it point by poin....how they felt the whole day! I mean come on I don’t have all day! so we talk about the weather...2 hours go by...we finally get to a restaurant and we are eating ...and we still talk about the weather...oh its a lot cooler now it didn’t feel so in the car.......I smileddddddd ..I think you know what was going on in my head!