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I feel like my conversation skill are seriously lacking because this is how it would go:

Someone: “What’s that?”

Me: “A coffee maker.”

Someone: “Oh interesting, you like coffee?”

Me: “Yes, it doesn’t work very well though so I don’t use it”

Someone: “ok”

Me: “bye”

Someone: “bye”



Oh, it goes more like this, if my experience is anything to go by:

Someone: "Wow, is that a Makita COFFEE MAKER??? I had no idea they did those!"

Me: "Sure is. The coffee admittedly isn't great, but it works off the same accus as everything else Makita, so..."

Someone: "Wow, that IS really cool. Any chance of you firing up a brew? I'd love to see it do its thing. What do you do, by the way?"

Me: "Sure thing. Oh, I do offshore handling equipment - this coffee maker spent a year in my tool crate and has brewed the morning cuppa on -pfff- something like thirty vessels all over the world. Cream? Sugar?"


Ha, I think your conversations skills are just better than mine.




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