This Is The Place For You If You Enjoy Being Last...

[usnuzuloose]

Dana is bored.Do you feel better today?

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Eh, not really. I have laundry I have to do, but am just being lazy today aside from that.

 

[franandaj]

Putting the last of the stuff in the car...need to go to the bank and grocery store. Fran is still in bed!

 

[usnuzuloose]

Grocery store before leaving? I guess it will be a late leaving day.

 

[franandaj]

Grocery store before leaving? I guess it will be a late leaving day.

No, just cat food and potato chips for the road.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Yep, gotta feed the cats.

 

[skiingfast]

I'm watching the news and so glad that we are leaving town, they expect 130,000 people to come to town for the Grand Prix this weekend!

I would have mixed feelings. I like formula car racing. Although there is soemthing about whiskey and Vegas.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I don't like car racing. I don't see the thrill of watching cars drive in circles all day long.

 

[usnuzuloose]

I feel bad for the people who live around there.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

 

[usnuzuloose]

I will trade you, you take the dog for a recheck and I will do laundry. Vet is a two minute walk. Next block.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Nah, doing laundry means I can watch Netflix on the couch between loads

 

[focusondisney]

From a fellow Taurean to another....The best advice I ever got from another (older) Taurean colleague when I was younger....he phrased it along these lines....


"I understand how you feel. It really really frustrating KNOWING that you're right and no one else seems to see the %$#%# obvious the way we do.
But...consider pausing for 10 seconds before you open your mouth. When you do open your mouth, repeat what THEY said FIRST. Then provide your viewpoint. If nothing else, it will make the other side feel like you're considering what they have said. At best, it will give you time to consider saying things differently....tactfully."


It took me a while to learn to pause before I opened my mouth. But I did eventually get the knack.
Now, people really think I'm a good listener and that I pay attention to what they said because I'm so good at repeating what I think they said first. And then when I provide my viewpoint, I get afforded the same courtesy of them listening to me.

Just by repeating back what they said gives them the impression that you're agreeing with them; but you're not really. It doesn't cost much time but it does make you appear more cooperative and open to their idea.

Welcome home twinnie!!! We missed you!

I love this advice. I'm a Taurus, too. Even my DH says I'm always right. I am starting some new union / committee responsibilities @ work & I really want to be effective. I'll have to try to put this into practice.


But for now, I'm just last.

 

[focusondisney]

Nah, doing laundry means I can watch Netflix on the couch between loads

Me too. But I'm Dissing between loads.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Last

 

[franandaj]

I feel bad for the people who live around there.

That is why I like to get out of town on race weekends.

When we got back from Totrance yesterday we made the mistake of going through downtown. Our street had such a traffic jam that we went three blocks out of our way not to wait in stop and go traffic.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Me too. But I'm Dissing between loads.

That too

 

[usnuzuloose]

Me too. But I'm Dissing between loads.

I did mine 2 days ago.

 

[skiingfast]

I don't like car racing. I don't see the thrill of watching cars drive in circles all day long.

I don't like all racing. I like formula cars because it's pushing the limits of technology. The cars are super advanced. Compared to Nascar where invention barely exists, they just refine their cars within a limit of what they can do.

 

[usnuzuloose]

That is why I like to get out of town on race weekends.

When we got back from Totrance yesterday we made the mistake of going through downtown. Our street had such a traffic jam that we went three blocks out of our way not to wait in stop and go traffic.

What a mess.