Your Worst Nightmare: Small Talk
If you would have known that you’d be sitting in this corner, flipping through tumblr, trying to evade eye contact for the last 45 minutes, you would have told your friend you ~conveniently~ got sick and couldn’t make it to this dumb party. I mean, you must have been sick in the first place when you accepted the invitation to socialize. Instead of staying in the comforts of your own home. Away from people you don’t know. Avoiding small talk. If socializing sounds like it’d drain the energy right from you, you might be introverted. So what do you do if you’re placed in a situation where you have to engage in casual conversation among strangers? Let’s just skip the fact that this scenario may not happen to you often -- or that you may be one of the rare recluses who has yet to be in this predicament (if that’s the case, please comment after reading this blog). For whatever reason, you got yourself into a setting where you only know one person, and you have to find a way to ...