If you are really there in a conversation, soon after you should probably not remember it at all.
If you are really responding to what the other person says, you may forget something else you wanted to say. So you should ask the person standing there if he is in a hurry to rush off, to please wait a minute while you think what was the last thing you wanted to say. It should really take only about one minute to remember it.
If you could possibly see that anything you just said sounded really stupid, you should hope the other person would notice and say, Hey, I don't know about that question you just asked me. Didn't you know that already? Instead, he will only say to himself, Gee this girl is really stupid and naive.
If at some point you remember or can get back to that conversation in your head (the sad thing is that it might be 30 yrs. later), don't you just wish you had said it right back then?
George (Jason Alexander) from Seinfeld once tried to do over a scene (about shrimp in the ocean) where he wanted so badly to respond a certain way, he set up that scene again somehow and ended up looking ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! I think he would make a great Shakespearean actor, if he is not already. How about King Lear?
Actually, I do see Dorothy Parker's point, but let's not overdo the marvelous relaxation afterward! Or find some other way to celebrate other than drinking! But boy was she ever a delicious writer!
If you are really responding to what the other person says, you may forget something else you wanted to say. So you should ask the person standing there if he is in a hurry to rush off, to please wait a minute while you think what was the last thing you wanted to say. It should really take only about one minute to remember it.
If you could possibly see that anything you just said sounded really stupid, you should hope the other person would notice and say, Hey, I don't know about that question you just asked me. Didn't you know that already? Instead, he will only say to himself, Gee this girl is really stupid and naive.
If at some point you remember or can get back to that conversation in your head (the sad thing is that it might be 30 yrs. later), don't you just wish you had said it right back then?
George (Jason Alexander) from Seinfeld once tried to do over a scene (about shrimp in the ocean) where he wanted so badly to respond a certain way, he set up that scene again somehow and ended up looking ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! I think he would make a great Shakespearean actor, if he is not already. How about King Lear?
Actually, I do see Dorothy Parker's point, but let's not overdo the marvelous relaxation afterward! Or find some other way to celebrate other than drinking! But boy was she ever a delicious writer!
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