Dec 24 2007
Words Don’t Matter
I was in an interesting predicament Saturday. I was at an event, the last seats available at the lunch table were with a group of French people who did not speak english. I relish being in uncomfortable situations at times and this was one of them. I wasn’t about to sit and not interact so I started making eye contact and nodding with the people at the table.
Smile and confident posture do wonders in situations such as these and I discovered that one of them that did speak english apologized for speaking french and explained that the others did not speak english. I said that I figured that out and not for them to worry. Now was my time to get into the conversation, I hijacked the conversation with my number one rule of interactions. Be interested not interesting.