At the adoption event last weekend, we were situated near the entrance to the store, which was also near the checkout aisles. And when you're posted right near the checkout aisles, you can't help but overhear the conversations of people waiting in line.
An older woman was standing in line, and then a man got in line behind her, and they recognized each other as friends who hadn't seen each other in a while, and they got to chatting.
"So!," the woman said. "How's your family?"
The man hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "You know what? That's not a really great question for me right now. How's YOUR family?"
I love that answer. I plan to use it in the future. "That's not a really great question for me right now." Perfect.
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- I was born in 1962; you do the math. (See also: I'm too lazy to remember to update this thing regularly.) I bought my first house in the summer of 2009; I share it with four cats and with the memories of The Runt and Little Girl, who both passed away in 2011. Rocky, the cat for whom this blog was named, passed away in 2008; I miss them all. I wish I lived somewhere where the winters weren't eight months long; other than that, life is good.
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2 comments:
That is excellent - I will have to remember that one.
The other response I like, and try to remember to use, is "I'm sorry to hear that" - when someone complains about something to me, with the intent that I should, clearly, *do* something about it.
It works well, especially for those of us, who tend to feel that when someone tells us something, that we need to *fix* it - sometimes we don't need to jump in to fix it, we just need to express empathy :D
Sadly, when it comes to my customers, (I do tech support) they *do* expect me to fix it :)
I like that, spiffi. And thanks for stopping by!
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