Speaking clearly

The importance of speaking clearly is often underestimated. After all, being understood is the most important part of speaking. You speak to get a point accross, and if you aren't clear, you're bound to confuse the person with whom you're conversing. This leads to what is called a conversation gap.
And when you dont understand what the other person is saying, out of politeness you tend to agree. This can make you look stupid or land you in a tight spot.
Example 1
In Psmith in the City, Mike is at a dinner party where he's been talked to by a Clergyman, who is not making himself very clear in speech. So Mike, out of politeness, keeps agreeing to whatever he's saying. Then, the clergyman asks Mike to pass the mustard. Mike doesnt understand what the fellow has just said, and he feels he should take a stand and so says "No.". In other words, he refuses to pass the mustard!
Example 2
In Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld is having dinner with his friend Kramer and his girlfriend. Kramer's girlfriend does not make herself clear, just like the aforementioned clergyman. Seinfeld is about to appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in trying to be polite, he agrees to wear a "puffy shirt", the ones that pirates wore. He doesnt know what he's agreed to, and when he realizes, he gets a nice shock.
I can think of many such instances, and I myself encountered such an individual, and out of politeness, kept agreeing. I hope I havent landed myself in a "tight spot", but this is what I felt.
So people, please take my advice and speak clearly.

Monday morning at priya

This morning I visited The Basant Lok complex, and much to my surprise, found a group of 15 modernites, in school uniform, occupying four tables and 8 chairs at Barista, at 11:30 when they should have been studying in their classrooms. Their presence was not surprising (In the past week, after the vacations started, I've been to Priya everyday, and have found Modernites with equal regularity), merely their number. I've never seen them bunk in such large numbers. I admire their cheek!
A disturbing happening which has weakened my faith in humanity, was the presence of Tagoreans (students of Tagore International School) at Priya, when even they should have been in class studying whatever they study. Modernites are excused from this, as I'm quite familiar with their "thinking ability" (coined by Sanjay Aggarwal) but Tagoreans, I had a higher opinion of them. I never thought they could stoop so low, to the level of Modernites!
On a monday morning at Priya, after you wade your way through Modernites and Tagoreans, you're bound to find droves of fat women (And I mean Fat) who have nothing to do and just "float" from shop to shop buying practically nothing.
After I'd made my way through these categories of the human race I was struck by a bolt of lightning. I was shaken and stirred. I saw a fat lady who had dyed her hair BLUE, no doubt with the best of motives, but it further shook my already battered faith in the human race.
In fact, at this time on mondays, shopkeepers shouldnt bother opening their shops. They get practically no real customers, just errant schoolgoers and fat women. Thats it. Not worth their time, I should think, but it seems they enjoy entertaining the above mentioned class of people, for some reasons, which remain in the deep recesses of their brains.
Those, as you must have noticed, were my views on Monday Morning at Priya. Should you, for some reason, remain in doubt, I would recommend reading this entry again, to get a better hang of it, though I will not be held responsible if you die of boredom.
S'all for now people.
Dhruv Kumar has had his say.

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