Are you listening?
I am writing this blog to the couple sitting across from me on the airplane. (They don’t know this of course). There is a very attractive woman and a man (glasses, kind of ordinary looking). They are clearly co-workers.
The woman has talked loudly, non stop for an hour or more. She is animated. Her hands are expressive. She bobs her head as she talks. She talks fast.
The man is mostly quiet. The man starts a sentence. The woman launches into another sentence before he finishes his. He stops and let’s her talk.
The man has his arms and legs folded. He is intermittently squinting like he is being “hit” by her words. Mostly he is nodding and saying “yes”, “I understand.” “Uh huh.”
He is patient.
I want to shout “pay attention!” I won’t. That is his job.“Why doesn’t he ask to be heard?”, I think to myself.
The art of conversation—is it dead?
