If I get into a conversation, I usually try to steer it towards trains or bicycles or something like that. Maybe cars... And it can be difficult for the other person to get to speak. (My Mum stops me and says "Let the other person talk about what they want to talk about" "But Mum, I don't know anything about horses!" I said without thinking it was impolite! Oops! Haha).
But anyway. Usually here in Wales people talk about the weather. My youngest brother who came out of the "Emergency exit" when I was 18 (Sisarian? Wasn't suee how to spell it so emergency exit will do. I tend to keep to simpler words in English despite having above average intelligence which puzzles me... How I can be above average when I am hopeless at languages and not that good at English?)
Sorry. Before I go off on a tangent, lets get back to the weather. My youngest brother was born when I was 18. When I heard my Mother was pregnant, it came as a shock to me (And my other brother I guess) and I hardly spoke to my parents, and when after about three weeks my Mum wanted to know why, I told her. "You've had sex!!!" It was the first time I had realized my parents had had sex... My Mum said "Where do you think we came from then?"
Grr! Off topic again! The weather. My youngest brother had a fascination with the weather when he was young as once (We live on top of a hill by the sea) he saw a dark raincloud and it was heading towards land in an easterly direction and my Mum said there was rain in it that was about to fall, and he realized it was going to fall on the people who lived under the direction it was heading and he thought that it was hillarious! Since then from that very early age he started learning about rainclouds and different cloud formations etc. I wasn't really interested myself. I either "Latch onto" a subject where I usually latch on for life, or I am not interested.
Now here in Wales, if I try to get in a conversation with ahyone, everyone talks about the weather. I got so puzzled and fed up about trying to communicate, that I thought "Right. If I want to communicate, I must learn about the weather. I am not usually bothered. I look outside and "Oh. It is raining. Yay"! Or, "Oh. Ok. It is nice and sunny. :) "
So borrowing some of the books my youngest brother had (Or we had as a family), I forced myself to learn about the weather. I don't usually remember a subject for long of I don't latch onto it, but I can retain it if I learn it a few times. It usually takes two or three times for me to learn something, but anyway. I learnt some of the clouds. Enough so I could talk about the weather so I could communicate.
So armed with knowing what the clouds were called and what they all meant, I decided to give it a go... Ooh. Another human! (A neighbour. We only have a few people living up here!) So the conversation started and almost straight away the weather came up and I started pointing out the clouds and saying what they mean and going into the details, and this person looked at me daft and with their mouth open and the conversation kinda stopped there!
Why is it that people want to talk about the weather but they don't want to talk about the interesting bits about the weather? I just don't get it? Then why mention it? Are they thick? Why? I just don't get it.
Well, it has been quite a number of years since and I can't remember the weather. I only retain it for a short time if it is not my interest. But I just don't get these wierd ways of communication! Haha! People can be soo wierd! Am I the only normal one on the planet? Actually no. Most of you lot are normal too! And is why I can communicate with you! But PLEASE talk about TRAINS!!! HAHAHAAHAHA! :) :) :)
