Surprisingly, I usually try to avoid extended conversations...
because they often become interrogation sessions and I'm not into revealing so much personal information and before you know it, you've exposed more information than you intended and it's too late to recover from that.
A co-worker... an attractive older woman... was telling me about a recent date she had and the more I tried to pull away, the more she told me. All of a sudden, I knew where they went, what they had for dinner, and what they talked about... which was fine, I guess. But, then she turned the tables and started quizzing me about my plans for the weekend. We talked for about 20 minutes and I was literally starting to sweat from the pressure of being trapped in the conversation going on so long.
It's not that I minded, I guess, but it was just so unplanned and there was no natural way to end the conversation. She finally remembered she had a conference call to go to and left. I cleaned up the breakroom table where we both ate our lunch and I went back to my desk feeling used, exhausted, and vulnerable for revealing so much.
A co-worker... an attractive older woman... was telling me about a recent date she had and the more I tried to pull away, the more she told me. All of a sudden, I knew where they went, what they had for dinner, and what they talked about... which was fine, I guess. But, then she turned the tables and started quizzing me about my plans for the weekend. We talked for about 20 minutes and I was literally starting to sweat from the pressure of being trapped in the conversation going on so long.
It's not that I minded, I guess, but it was just so unplanned and there was no natural way to end the conversation. She finally remembered she had a conference call to go to and left. I cleaned up the breakroom table where we both ate our lunch and I went back to my desk feeling used, exhausted, and vulnerable for revealing so much.
26-30, M