I was accused of not listening to someone the other day: someone who called me to deliver a monologue. As I naively believed it should be a dialogue I spoke. I tried it once. Then spoke only when I was asked something.
The other day a manager from the hotel came to talk to me and said I should use trip advisor of agoda to rate their hotel ... good and bad, he said. As we talked, again more of a monologue than a dialogue I said, there are two important things in a hotel ... I told him the first one and as I started to tell him my second one, he was already talking again.
Last night, I was waiting for my suitcase at the airport when a fellow passenger came and started talking. At first I didn't follow what he was talking about. I don't think he knew either! Well, it settled down and I learned about the price of his ticket, his route, his view on various airlines, where he lived, where he worked, the comfort of the plane we had just shared, his accounting department's views on his expenses and more.
I started to offer something of my own.but he started looking around and something behind me caught his eye. I was unwittingly engaged in another monologue. I stopped talking and thankfully my suitcase arrived. We went our separate ways.
DW
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