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All extroverts do not have "diarrhea of the mouth."
Since the introverts here insist on negatively characterizing
extroverts, I, a moderate extrovert, am emboldened to characterize introverts as snobs. At least that is how you appear, and certainly how you manifest when you negatively characterize non introverts.
I know...that was my point exactly. I was giving examples of how the terms (both of them) get misused to embrace other behaviors.
This reminds me of a recent incident where a woman called me to try and sell me something, and I saw right through her friendly shmooze and kinda yelled at her. At least, for ME, it was very rude. I had zero patience with that call.
After I hung up, I muttered to myself, "dear lord, I've gone feral."
I've also noticed that on occasion I've gotten into casual chitchat with a neighbor or a worker repairing a fence behind my house, and people are kinda starved for interaction. I can be friendly when I don't feel like someone is trying to sell me something, but I may have less overall patience with BS than before.
Haha, it reminds me of when I lived in a rural area and would go talk to farmers for permission to hunt on their land. Most of them would chit-chat your ear off, since they were a bit isolated.
OK, I see your location is "New York area". This behavior must be something specific to New York, and everything it went through with Covid.
That may well be. We were "ground zero" for the major initial regional impact, before testing was available, before hospitals were geared up and before anyone started taking any precautions. Infections were sudden and sometimes severe or fatal. Things were more manageable in the rest of the country.
Likewise with the post office. The bank. The movie theater. I don’t visit those places to chat, or to seek entertainment through casual human interaction. I go there to mail a letter, to deposit a check, to watch a film. I am not a “digital” person.
All of these functions require for facilities to be open and functioning. When they are suspended, closed, cordoned-off, shuttered, reduced or otherwise diminished, my life is diminished. The small-talk is neither here nor there; but I’d very much like my “normal” life back!
This is interesting. I have not been in a movie theater for probably 30 years, and haven't been to a post office for 20 years or longer.
I was last in a bank about 14 years ago.
You say "I go there to mail a letter, to deposit a check, to watch a film."
These things can very easily be done without going to a post office, a bank, and a movie theater.
Good points. I think it's important not to extrapolate from what are quite possibly just products of the group you're part of.
Over my own life I did come to a realization that was uncomfortable at first but thank god I had it: if I wanted fulfilling conversations I needed to be an interesting, curious, non-prejudicial person. Not "them," me. Didn't matter if this was small talk or medium of big talk, LOL.
You just said a mouthful
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