When you have a get-together with friends and family, it is always good to invite a person who you don't really like who can take the pictures. Because usually, when you want to take a group shot, it's hard to get
everybody in the picture. Somebody must always get up to take the shot, you know? And so you are always stuck taking at least TWO pictures, if not more, so you can switch off; One person will take a group shot, and then somebody else will get up and take another picture so the first picture-taker can be in a picture too. This is where the unliked person comes in handy. Whenever you want a group shot, and you want to make sure to include everybody, just politely ask this person to take the picture. That way you will always have pictures of the whole group (except of the unliked person, but they don't matter anyways).
WALKING TRAFFIC.
Sometimes I am walking down the street, and I hear a person walking up behind me. I can hear them getting closer and closer. I often think about what I should do. Should I start to walk faster to match the person's speed? Or should I slow down and move the the side so they can walk by me? Usually I just slow down and move over. What is strange, is that I think others go through this thinking as well. Sometimes I will be walking behind a person and I try to walk faster so I can pass them. But as soon as I walk faster, so do they. It's like they won't allow me to walk by. It's odd and annoying. I wonder if they are thinking if they should move to the side, like I often think. Maybe they think that I just want them to walk faster, which is why they do so instead of moving over. And maybe sometimes when I am in front of a person, they are only wanting me to walk faster, but then I move to the side, and that is why they slow down. They should invent turning signals and brake lights for pedestrians.
EMBARRASSING LANGUAGE
(For those of you who don't know, right now I am living in Austria. It might make more sense). Being in a country where you look the same is hard. You know why? I will be sitting at the train station, and people will come up to me and ask me questions. I have no idea what they are saying, and it embarrasses me each time that I have to say "Oh, I don't speak good German". It would be much nicer if I was in Africa or Japan, so people could plainly see that I am a foreigner. That way they wouldn't try to start up conversations with me in
a language that I barely know. I don't really mind people talking to me. But it's just that they embarrass themselves. Wouldn't you feel kinda dumb if you started talking and talking and talking to this person, and then
they said "Oh, by the way, I have no clue what the hell you are saying." That's the thing, I hate seeing other people get embarrassed. I don't care when I embarrass myself, but when I witness somebody else do something stupid, it embarrasses me that they are embarrassed. So, sometimes when they say stuff, I will just nod and smile, and that way they just think that I am stupid. I would rather have them think that I am stupid then to embarrass them by saying I don't speak German.