when you have no clue what someone is/was talking about.......?
2007-11-05 16:50:35 · 21 answers · asked by hey123 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yes, because I don't want to hurt their feelings by letting them know I'm either not interested in what they are saying or not understanding...
I do that most of the time when people gossips about someone to me, I don't feel like listening to it... ^_^
But if I know they are saying something important, I won't want to just nod and smile, I will ask again what they mean...
2007-11-05 17:00:49 · answer #1 · answered by FloralLover 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes! i think the "smile&nod" is one of the best besttestestest "moves" or gesture ever hehe.. it usuuually works out fine except for one time when my mom was yelling at me and i was singing in my head so i couldn't even hear(i mean, i could physically hear, but wasn't listening to the words..i just heard..noise...lol..ya know?) what she was saying and somewhere along those loud words she was saying she asked me to do a bunch of chores..i didnt hear that part and didnt feel like arguing with her..and i smiled and nodded...it got me in trouble that time cause i didnt go out for a whole weekend, i was stuck at home doing a ton of stuff around the house! :/ other than that time, it always works out fine :D cause i smile a lot anyways so all i really have to do when someone (mostly teachers..) are giving me a boring speech is add a litthol nod to my smile n i'm set! no one gets hurt..hehe..or when i didnt understand/hear what someone said and i dont feel like saying "what? :?" i do the smile and nod =.]..i also do it when someone says something nice about me or asks me something that i dont want to give a long answer to or hmm..yea.a few other times too hehe..xoxoxox
2007-11-07 01:36:05 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Doll 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do that if I don't hear someone. First, I ask what they said, and when I can't understand them again, I nod and smile... Confuses people most of the time, but it's not my fault they don't speak well!
2007-11-08 20:45:58 · answer #3 · answered by Izzy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do. I can't understand this guy at my school so I just nod. One of these days he's going to ask me to get busy with him and my fool self will be over there nodding and smiling.. Oy!
2007-11-06 00:56:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah... It's really embarrassing when they catch you doing that too. Especially when you're nodding when you're supposed to be shaking your head. Hah. I guess people just nod and smile because they don't want to admit that they're bad listeners. I do it all the time... :)
2007-11-06 00:54:36 · answer #5 · answered by Yo :) 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no clue? i will ask for further detail!!! nod and smile is part of social manners.....sometime lazy to reply or answer...this really work!!! not offending anyone!!!
2007-11-06 08:29:29 · answer #6 · answered by harijanti 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That or something like what exactly do you mean by that?
Hoping to get a better explanation so I can try and figure out what it is they ARE trying to talk about.
2007-11-06 00:58:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ahha! guilty!!!!
i do that sometimes yeah..
hahah..
but afterwords i tell that someone that i didn't pay any attention..and they usually laugh
but yeah..sometimes i just say, "Yeah!" ((with intent feeling)) every 6 to 8 minutes..yeah, always works that way C=
do you????????????
2007-11-07 22:38:38 · answer #8 · answered by Persy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alot, some of my co-workers just go on and on
also my father in law
2007-11-06 00:55:13 · answer #9 · answered by jennyforrich 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep, everyday of my life.
*nod*
=]
2007-11-06 18:14:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋