Listen carefully

[wolfie69]

I want to know.... how many of you really listen when people are talking to you? Or do you just give surface attention?

 

[KillerMuffin]

Schnieder ditched the flattop cabovers in favor of condos. Driver retention.

Oh. Sorry, wasn't listening.

You had to see that one coming.

It depends on whose talking and what about. I generally tune the Stud out. He's repetitive and I've heard thirty variations of it before.

Listening involves the brain. I try to think about what the other person is saying when they speak, not what I'm going to say. Of course, I don't have much to say out loud anyway and I get run over in any verbal exchange it seems. I listen more than speak.

 

[PacificBlue]

I listen carefully and try to remember the details. Such as...names of friends, co-workers, dates, likes, dislikes, etc. It makes someone feel special and valued if they don't have to repeat everything to catch you up with a story. I know that's how I like to be treated, it just doesn't always happen that way. I know I get irritated if I've had to repeat the same thing more than 3 times...I wonder what the point of talking in the first place was. Case in point...I don't know how many times I told my family I wasn't working today. "Are you working Monday?" NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! *breathe* *breathe* *breathe*

I'm a believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

 

[p_p_man]

I'm to busy thinking of my reply...

to listen to the question...

 

[Silverlily]

It depends on who is doing the talking and what the conversation is about. Generally, if we don't make eye contact, I am not listening.

 

[Wiggles]

I'll usually listen, then forget it about an hour later. It's convenient for me to have friends that tell the same story over and over and over again.

I really do try to listen to people though, it's hard, I think I have A.D.D or something.

 

[koalabear]

What surface tension?

 

[Debbie]

I try to listen carefully to people. It is respectful and a nice thing to do. But sometimes I wonder off especially if the conversation is boring or reptitive.

 

[alltherage]

At work, with my kids, or a new lover I listen. Collecting evidence I am. Not really, but there is something about those situations that tune me in.

With the ex i listen only to the part just before goodbye bitch! That is his form of summation and I get the gist of his overall message.

It depends completely on the speaker and the circumstance for me.

 

[LordMagicMan]

what?

 

[lobito]

For the most part I'm a better listener, and rememberer, than I am a talker. However, those close to me know that I can talk like a mother fucker at times too.

I do remember the smallest little details from just a glimpse sometimes of a person.

 

[pabloback]

i can meet a person once , then meet them a year later and rattle off the whole conversation from the year previous word for word and not remember the persons name

 

[MissTaken]

I am told I am good listener. That is a good quality considering my line of work, I suppose.

 

[wolfie69]

KillerMuffin

About time they scrapped those damned flat top cabovers. I started out driving one... now have a freightliner XL Classic...What was the rest of what you said?


I find myself, at times, only half listening to people I have talked to alot. It is easier to listen to new people, at least when they have something interesting to share.

 

[ksmybuttons]

I hear, but I don't always listen

I find I hear, but I haven't listened. Then, when I am ready, I can pull out the information that I heard and process it. I am an observer. I am much too visual to listen all the time. I am watching...

 

[pabloback]

er yea
yeah
um
yeah
thats right
hmmmm
yep
mmmm
yeah
sorry what was the last bit?

 

[sch00lteacher]

I have to listen very carefully, and I have to be looking at you when you talk, so I can match your words to your lips. Cause I am damn near deaf. I can't afford three thousand dollar hearing aids. If we had a conversation, get ready to repeat a lot of what you said.

Drives my students nuts. Drives me nuts. Hopefully the VA is going to help with the aids. I spent too much time around jets, explosions, and gun fire. What? Did you say something? I'm sorry I didn't hear you... How many times have I said that

 

[Bigdog]

My wife says I never listen to her...


















or something like that.

 

[Calamity Jane]

i can meet a person once , then meet them a year later and rattle off the whole conversation from the year previous word for word and not remember the persons name

Yup. I remember everything I hear or read, it seems. Makes people crazy when I can recall word for word a paragraph from a book I haven't read in years, or lines from a movie, or a conversation complete with where we were and what we were wearing when it took place... but I can't remember names to save my life.

 

[Mensa]

Ho-hummm

I'm not listening to any of this.

 

[Mellon Collie]

It depends on who's talking and what the subject matter is. But I am guilty of selective listening on more than one occasion, usually when it's my Mom calling me up to complain about her boyfriend.