lots of things would stop them talking to you
eg ask their opinion on a disastrous relationship query or a recent dreadful sexual experience.

but you won't of course, you'll just carry on nodding and being polite and dying a little inside with every. dull. word.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 16:21, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

You're exactly right, of course
And I will just sit there trying to remember to say "Yes," at appropriate gaps in their endless deluge of words. There are just some days when I wonder if I'm going to just give up and ask them whether they can't just give it a fucking rest.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 16:34, Reply)

the number of times i sit there with clients
and inside my head i am screaming "i don't care i don't care i don't care i don't care i don't care" but somehow externally i am smiling and being uber-charming.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 16:49, Reply)

I swear I used to be good at that
I'm sure at one point, even if I do say so myself, I must have had a level of patience comparable with a saint. Trouble is, I don't know where it's gone. Quite how you can still do it is beyond me, especially given how often you have to deal with the general public.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 16:58, Reply)