Non-Verbal Diarrhea
I am pretty weird. I generally try to be. But sometimes, in those moments of weakness, I somehow stop being. Then, it happens.
Whenever I ride, I generally give a speech. In my head. Yup. I generally think of something and speak about it in my head. I would think aloud inside. I would make a case for or against it and talk vehemently without a single word leaking out of my mouth. Sometimes, I even argue for the other side and see to it that my first argument is shred into pieces.
For some reason (my brother's loud alarm - Stupid thing) I couldn't get enough sleep today. As usual, I was thinking about something while riding to office. I was pretty groggy when I reached the office in the blazing sun around 11 in the morning. I go in and go to this person's table to get my chair. Now, this person is one of the very few people who could actually kick me out of my project/company if he wanted to. Very nice guy. And then he said it - he said "Hi".
I don't know about you, but I find it very difficult to reply to this one. Actually the reply to this itself is pretty simple. I mean, duh, its "Hi", of course. Sometimes, I even innovate and go "Hello" or even a bold "Hey". May be if I am in a rebellious mood I may even go "Yo". As you notice, I try to amuse myself with what to reply to the culprit "Hi". This, along with my constant thinking about random things which are in no way related to the current thing at hand, makes it very difficult to strike a conversation. Now, like I said, "Hi" itself is pretty simple to answer. But since I am always so preoccupied with so many other things, I almost always never expect to hear "What's up?". This is where things start going out of my hands. Going back to today morning, I just mumbled something to my boss' "What's up?". He was like "What"? And I ended up saying something insanely incomprehensible. I don't even remember or understood what I said. It was hilarious actually. I tried answering the question "What's up?" 5 times and failed. I just shrugged and he was just nice and asked me if I was feeling all right. I said I dint have enough sleep and slipped away.
Now, I am sure I am not the only one with issues.
4 comments:
lol.. this one was funny!! the way you go about explaining little little things is very amusing.. :P about the speech thing, even i used to do it pretty often until some day i got tired of hearing speeches :P
I love this one ... one of your best ones ... can totally relate to it
hehehe....
And all these only seem to happen when u r late to office. You know, I 1s was so friggin' late to office, that I found my manager at the parking lot. And I sure as hell, to this day, don't know what he told/asked me.. It could have been a simple "Hello", a "Good Morning" or ev1 a "What on Earth kept u so late?"
But I know this - I didn't answer him. Yes siree.. I didn't. I was soo occupied with something that I forgot to answer him. And just when I realized I must have, the moment had passed. I would have seemed like a dyslexic or smthng, had I tried to open my bloody mouth after soo much time.
And to think that I still was on probation when it happened.... :O :O
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