Sunday, June 30, 2013

The Doubts of Unspoken Rules, by Diana Kreutzer


What is too much to share with a friend?

How do you know when you have shared too much?

What color combinations of clothes spill over the boundary of creative fashion and into the category of laughable, by those who judge such things?

What is the proper speed to eat in public so that you still qualify as being someone with good table manners?

At what point in a friendship is quiet time appropriate?

How much time is too much to be alone, before one is viewed as eccentric or hermit-like?

When do you start signing off your texts, e-mails, letters with "love" to your friends? 

When is someone considered a "friend"?

How much eye contact is allowed when you are alone among people you do not  know?

When do you decide to trust someone new in your life?

How many questions are too many to ask the tour guide, or bird guide, before everyone becomes annoyed with you?

How do you know that someone is interested in meeting  you and not merely saying "Hello! How are you?" to be polite?