Recently we were at a family do and just sitting around talking. There were about 6 of us adults sitting down with a couple of grand nieces running around in the background. My sister was speaking about something when all of a sudden our niece said quite loudly,” What a crock of rubbish”. (Not using the word “rubbish” of course.) Well every one was stunned because it really didn’t seem appropriate to the conversation from my sister. But then our niece, after a long pause added one of her daughters' name. She had been so busy taking notice of what her daughter had been saying, that she never heard a word my sister said, but when she answered her daughter, we all thought she was talking to her Aunt.
We, the listeners were party to two separate conversations believing we were listening to only the one we heard.
How often do you do the same thing? And when you do, do you try and find out what was really meant or do you walk off in a huff and never speak to that person again? Or even worse, respond with some not so choice words, that once spoken can’t be taken back when you learn the real facts? What say you? Walter
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