Conversation Killers
There is a girl at work who I innocently made a remark to that was not critical in my opinion. As a matter of fact, often when I speak with her it is on the obligatory chit chat level, so it couldn't have been that serious. On two occasions she has retorted, "that sounds like a judgment." The first time she said it I let is slide and wondered why she said it. I might have even asked her. The next time she said it however, I was confused and upset. I shut down the conversation at that point because that was definitely a conversation killer. I think it is interesting that she would say something like that because she wouldn't say that if I was complimenting her on her eyeshadow or $200 rain boots. Yet, she took what I said without malice as a judgment. I would have preferred if she had inquired as to my intention rather than make a blanket statement of that sort. It then makes me the "bad person" and I have no idea why she is then judging me as this bad pers...