Have you ever been eavesdropping on someone else’s conversation and want to join in? Are you a joiner? Do you insert yourself in their private conversation?
For me, it depends on the subject and the people’s emotional state. Their drunkenness and my drunkenness can contribute.
I probably join in others’ conversations about twenty-five percent of the time.
Today, although the others’ subject matter and comments fascinated me, I restrained myself.
I just posted about it.
Michael Seidel, writer 
In the classroom I prefer to teach through encouraging and engaging discourse. Everybody has something to contribute. It’s all about knowing the time and the place. Since I’m absolute garbage at time management, I just make different places for people to be free to talk and stuff.
I’m an open book. Because I have no idea what boundaries are.
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It’s hard not to here at work, we don’t have offices yet since the new building we’re suppose to be in isn’t completed yet. So we’re in cubicles and we can hear everything that goes on in between the “cubes.” And sometimes it’s really hard to stay out of scintillating conversation like “Who is Miles Morales, he’s the new black Spiderman?” When I know the dudes not black but Puerto Rican and having to explain why Puerto Rican’s “aint” black to our receptionist. That’s exactly how our receptionist pronounced it…ugh..
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I remember those days. Yes, and the urge to correct is frustrating. Arrgh.
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I find you can pretty much tell when people want you to jump in, because they’ll talk loudly or look at you and smile invitingly. Otherwise, I just listen and file it away for later!
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Yes, I’ve often noticed that. Many times, they also become sort of puffed up with self-conscious self-importance because they’re aware that you’re eavesdropping.
Eavesdropping is an interesting word, isn’t it?
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Yes—I wonder what the origins of it are?
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Me, too. Like an expression my mother used when I was a child. She’d warn us, “I’ll brain you if you keep it up.” We all wondered, why did she say “brain you”. Where did it come from?
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Was she British? They say that a LOT!
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No, but she lived in a sparsely populated area settled by English, German, and Irish when she was a little girl. Maybe she picked it up from the earlier settlers.
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