Comments on: Grocery Store Confessions and Other Wild Tales http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:45:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Karen Swim http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-3343 Karen Swim Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:50:43 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-3343 Robert, I am not at all surprised to learn Mrs. MZM has that gift. Her husband is also gifted with insight and compassion. :-) Oh Nadine, that is so sad about your neighbor! I agree with you it is so sad that we have closed ourselves off. It is rare to see a true community these days. In fact, I don't even see kids outside much anymore. I sense though that many long for those connections so I hope we find a way to break down those barriers. About the directions, that is very funny! I know it is because they sense your kindness. Hi Spagetthipie! Ah, yes so true that every gift also comes with responsibility. I do not take that lightly. I would love to hear more about your thoughts on creating community. It is an issue close to my heart as well. E, lol! The occasional rant is pretty good, eh? I may do that, in fact....lol! Have I told you ten million times that I am so glad you're back? I'm glad you're back! Jamie, your Dad sounds like a sweet funny man. Does he also share your gift for writing? I think that's funny about the gas station. lol! A tank of gas and confession all in one place. :-) Robert, I am not at all surprised to learn Mrs. MZM has that gift. Her husband is also gifted with insight and compassion. :-)

Oh Nadine, that is so sad about your neighbor! I agree with you it is so sad that we have closed ourselves off. It is rare to see a true community these days. In fact, I don’t even see kids outside much anymore. I sense though that many long for those connections so I hope we find a way to break down those barriers. About the directions, that is very funny! I know it is because they sense your kindness.

Hi Spagetthipie! Ah, yes so true that every gift also comes with responsibility. I do not take that lightly. I would love to hear more about your thoughts on creating community. It is an issue close to my heart as well.

E, lol! The occasional rant is pretty good, eh? I may do that, in fact….lol! Have I told you ten million times that I am so glad you’re back? I’m glad you’re back!

Jamie, your Dad sounds like a sweet funny man. Does he also share your gift for writing? I think that’s funny about the gas station. lol! A tank of gas and confession all in one place. :-)

]]> By: Jamie Grove - How Not To Write http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-1189 Jamie Grove - How Not To Write Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:09:25 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-1189 Strangers blurt out the most personal details of their lives to me as well. It happens everywhere, especially at the gas pump. It happens to my dad too. He says we have the Eyes of the Ancients and people can't help but tell their tales. So, I know when people are going to call me before they call and I can get unsolicited tales of horror and strangeness while filling up at $5 a gallon. Now if I could just tune in some lottery numbers! Great post, Karen. Glad to know I am not alone out there. :) Jamie Grove - How Not To Writes last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowNotToWrite/~3/338041723/" rel="nofollow">The Maybe Flower - What Maybe Does to Your Writing</a> Strangers blurt out the most personal details of their lives to me as well. It happens everywhere, especially at the gas pump. It happens to my dad too. He says we have the Eyes of the Ancients and people can’t help but tell their tales.

So, I know when people are going to call me before they call and I can get unsolicited tales of horror and strangeness while filling up at $5 a gallon. Now if I could just tune in some lottery numbers!

Great post, Karen. Glad to know I am not alone out there. :)

Jamie Grove – How Not To Writes last blog post..The Maybe Flower – What Maybe Does to Your Writing

]]> By: Ellen Wilson http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Ellen Wilson Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:14:29 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-876 Wow Karen. Now I know where I can go. Just kidding. That's a hard row to hoe. Well, just remember to have an equal amount of time for your venting! Maybe you could do a shrink weekly column. Ellen Wilsons last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wilsonswordsandpictures/oiRe/~3/336609076/" rel="nofollow">Crossing the Border</a> Wow Karen. Now I know where I can go. Just kidding.

That’s a hard row to hoe. Well, just remember to have an equal amount of time for your venting!

Maybe you could do a shrink weekly column.

Ellen Wilsons last blog post..Crossing the Border

]]> By: spaghettipie http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-873 spaghettipie Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:11:49 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-873 A beautiful gift with heavy responsibility. And I love your urging to really connect with others. That's an issue close to my heart - creating true community where we feel safe enough to do that. spaghettipies last blog post..<a href="http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/were-on-the-same-team-part-1/" rel="nofollow">We’re on the same team, Part 1</a> A beautiful gift with heavy responsibility.

And I love your urging to really connect with others. That’s an issue close to my heart – creating true community where we feel safe enough to do that.

spaghettipies last blog post..We’re on the same team, Part 1

]]> By: Nadine Touzet http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-872 Nadine Touzet Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:52:14 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-872 Believe it or not, this often happens to me too. But I have another talent. If I am in an unknown city, people come up to me to ask me the way. How can they guess that I'd be only too willing to help them out, if only I knew my own way? It's a mystery to me. But about the second part of your post: I confirm the fact that we are walled-in, literally in some cases. My neighbor on one side decided one year to pull up the hedge and to have a wall built instead (he had serious medical reasons for that). Since then, we've hardly talked, and we almost went to court over a tree of mine that was hanging over the d*** wall. I used to chat with his wife across the hedge, we had conversations. Now she's very sick and I hardly ever see her, and they won't have visitors. Isn't that a pity? Nadine Touzets last blog post..<a href="http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/2008/07/15/twitter-updates-for-2008-07-15/" rel="nofollow">Twitter Updates for 2008-07-15</a> Believe it or not, this often happens to me too. But I have another talent. If I am in an unknown city, people come up to me to ask me the way. How can they guess that I’d be only too willing to help them out, if only I knew my own way? It’s a mystery to me.

But about the second part of your post: I confirm the fact that we are walled-in, literally in some cases. My neighbor on one side decided one year to pull up the hedge and to have a wall built instead (he had serious medical reasons for that). Since then, we’ve hardly talked, and we almost went to court over a tree of mine that was hanging over the d*** wall. I used to chat with his wife across the hedge, we had conversations. Now she’s very sick and I hardly ever see her, and they won’t have visitors. Isn’t that a pity?

Nadine Touzets last blog post..Twitter Updates for 2008-07-15

]]> By: Robert Hruzek http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-870 Robert Hruzek Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:37:09 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-870 Mrs. MZM has the same gift, so I know whereof you speak. I first noticed it right after we got married. Whenever we're together, and someone speaks to us, they invariably look in her eyes, not mine. At first I thought, "What am I, chopped liver?" But I soon realized it was completely unconscious on their part. I think some folks are somehow more sensitive to others' spirits, if you know what I mean. Somehow they sense your sensitivity and caring spirit, and subconsciously want to respond. Robert Hruzeks last blog post..<a href="http://middlezonemusings.com/hidden-potential/" rel="nofollow">Hidden Potential</a> Mrs. MZM has the same gift, so I know whereof you speak. I first noticed it right after we got married. Whenever we’re together, and someone speaks to us, they invariably look in her eyes, not mine.

At first I thought, “What am I, chopped liver?” But I soon realized it was completely unconscious on their part.

I think some folks are somehow more sensitive to others’ spirits, if you know what I mean. Somehow they sense your sensitivity and caring spirit, and subconsciously want to respond.

Robert Hruzeks last blog post..Hidden Potential

]]> By: Karen Swim http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-869 Karen Swim Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:12:26 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-869 Friar, it's funny I initially wanted to be a psychiatrist! I only changed my mind after deciding it would be too depressing. In later years I considered becoming a life coach for many of the same reasons I wanted to pursue psychology. I guess there are some things you just can't shake! LOL! Alina, I am not surprised to find that you are a good friend! Last night I had a long IM chat with blogger and Twitter bud, Daniel Smith. Even though it was IM it felt like a long phone conversation with a good friend. It was just the two of us yakking away. So, technology does not have to impede our ability to connect it can help. The trick is making time for it. :-) Wendi, I knew you were a member of the club! LOL! When I go to my hairdresser, it's the other way around. One day, I am going to unload on a stranger just to be on the other side. :-) Your last point strikes a chord with me too. I listen a lot but rarely reveal much. I am trying to work on that too. Friar, it’s funny I initially wanted to be a psychiatrist! I only changed my mind after deciding it would be too depressing. In later years I considered becoming a life coach for many of the same reasons I wanted to pursue psychology. I guess there are some things you just can’t shake! LOL!

Alina, I am not surprised to find that you are a good friend! Last night I had a long IM chat with blogger and Twitter bud, Daniel Smith. Even though it was IM it felt like a long phone conversation with a good friend. It was just the two of us yakking away. So, technology does not have to impede our ability to connect it can help. The trick is making time for it. :-)

Wendi, I knew you were a member of the club! LOL! When I go to my hairdresser, it’s the other way around. One day, I am going to unload on a stranger just to be on the other side. :-) Your last point strikes a chord with me too. I listen a lot but rarely reveal much. I am trying to work on that too.

]]> By: Wendi Kelly http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-867 Wendi Kelly Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:21:16 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-867 I have that neon light on my forehead. People tell me everything. Not really a surprise afteer being a hairdresser and a Realtor for years and years. I know more than their Shrinks. The thing is they are sometimes less inhibited about telling a stranger. You don't know them...you can't/won't judge them...it doesn't really matter what you think of them. Talking to a friend or family member, they have to risk losing that person in their life if they are unaccepted for their tale. I...for all of my work in learning how to be a two-way friendship person am still more apt to listen than talk. I still have to work on that. I have that neon light on my forehead. People tell me everything. Not really a surprise afteer being a hairdresser and a Realtor for years and years. I know more than their Shrinks.
The thing is they are sometimes less inhibited about telling a stranger. You don’t know them…you can’t/won’t judge them…it doesn’t really matter what you think of them. Talking to a friend or family member, they have to risk losing that person in their life if they are unaccepted for their tale.

I…for all of my work in learning how to be a two-way friendship person am still more apt to listen than talk. I still have to work on that.

]]> By: Alina Popescu http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-866 Alina Popescu Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:16:35 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-866 Confess to complete strangers? Not really. I did talk about deep issues with people I hadn't known for too long but with whom I felt a strong connection. I feel we're all neglecting friends and family these days, keeping busy and forgetting about other more important needs. I currently make a point to meet at least one friend outside of work each week and see my family every couple of weeks. It doesn't always work, but that's what phones, emails and instant messengers are for, to keep connected until we make more time :) Alina Popescus last blog post..<a href="http://wordsofabrokenmirror.com/2008/07/16/keep-your-audience-in-mind-every-step-of-the-way/" rel="nofollow">Keep Your Audience In Mind Every Step of the Way</a> Confess to complete strangers? Not really. I did talk about deep issues with people I hadn’t known for too long but with whom I felt a strong connection. I feel we’re all neglecting friends and family these days, keeping busy and forgetting about other more important needs.

I currently make a point to meet at least one friend outside of work each week and see my family every couple of weeks. It doesn’t always work, but that’s what phones, emails and instant messengers are for, to keep connected until we make more time :)

Alina Popescus last blog post..Keep Your Audience In Mind Every Step of the Way

]]> By: Friar http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/07/16/grocery-store-confessions-and-other-wild-tales/comment-page-1/#comment-865 Friar Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:04:37 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=137#comment-865 Hmmmm....the way people open up to you, it sounds like you have a 2nd hidden talent. If you ever get tired of doing what you do, I bet you'd make a good counsellor, social worker or psychiatrist. (Or, if you don't want to go back to school for that long, maybe start giving Tarot Card readings. Bet you there's good money in that! :-) Friars last blog post..<a href="http://deepfriar.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/another-typical-week-here/" rel="nofollow">Another Typical Week Here…</a> Hmmmm….the way people open up to you, it sounds like you have a 2nd hidden talent.

If you ever get tired of doing what you do, I bet you’d make a good counsellor, social worker or psychiatrist.

(Or, if you don’t want to go back to school for that long, maybe start giving Tarot Card readings.

Bet you there’s good money in that! :-)

Friars last blog post..Another Typical Week Here…

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