Watching television

I’ve have watched tv and thought, ah ha, this is how they do it. To be honest it still ends in an epic fail. My wife has been teaching me about telephone conversations, I really struggle, people start this dance of, “ how are you?” I just do the, “ fine” I’ve now been told that I’m supposed to ask the question back. I now also see that it leaves a pregnant pause in the conversation. I find it puzzling, they don’t really want to know what is actually going on in my head. It still also doesn’t cure when I’m supposed to talk and not keep saying, “ sorry,” because I’m talking over people.

Or a row escalating to literally screaming at each other two feet way, then one person yelling after the other, often through a closed door. As standard.,must be rare in real life. 

Probably best not to! Well, depends what you watch. Like, who in real life does anything like characters do in soaps? Standing facing the wall with shifty eyes while they lie about something while the other person studied the back of their head suspiciously but carries on chatting like normal