Awkward Silences and How to Prevent Them

ubjective emotion or thought: It is hilarious that Bob plays Tetris at work constantly.
Sarcastic statement: Bob deserves a medal for worker of the year.

The first way to answer mundane questions is to dance around the real answer. You are giving information, but in almost riddle-form.

“I type things in the computer for a living and I’m from a state no one knows anything about except the Kentucky Derby.”

You put an otherwise mundane answer into an interesting form that requires some thought and almost decoding. While the facts are exactly the same, your presentation makes you look more insightful and like you don’t take yourself seriously. It simply gives people something to respond to or ask about in the case they aren’t an engineer or from Kentucky.

irst, make a list of the things you feel comfortable making fun of yourself about or those things others make fun of you for. These are your negative traits, flaws, idiosyncrasies, unique traits, funny likes and dislikes, funny habits, and so forth. Let’s stick with the example of having poor navigational skills.

Decide where your boundarie

That totally makes me think of …

really love/hate that because …

Imagine the key phrase as I remember when I …