Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why not say you are working on a personal project? We all do enough stretching of the truth in regular conversation that any lying we can avoid can only help...help exactly what I am not sure :-). There was a recent blurb in Discover Magazine where people listened their own recorded casual conversations. Everyone was surprised by how often they stretched the truth more than a little. The professor involved said the study had a real impact on his conversation. He may have been exaggerating though... John Collier On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 07:38 AM, Jeffrey Fass wrote: > At a restaurant last week, I went back into the kitchen to photograph > the > kitchen help. They were agreeable and posed for me. One of them asked > "are > you from a magazine?" Without thinking I said yes, and continued. First > thought was maybe they're cooperating because they think that - if I > told > them I was just taking pictures for my PAW (they'd *never* understand > that...<g>) then things would not go as well. Better to lock it down, > so to > speak. > > What do others do in spontaneous, candid situations? - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html