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Review by Ayla Jones
Rated: E | (3.0)
This is actually a trick I discovered and learned to use for a number of reasons. Say your friends are all sitting around and a simple conversation of opinion starts to get heated and you know if it continues it'd ruin the evening and possibly friendship. Or coworkers at work that never got along start saying remarks about the other and you find yourself in the middle. Doing something entirely unexpected and making no sense what so ever can catch people so off guard it can literally boot their mind out of it''s current mode.

The first time was when I was much much younger. My friends were arguing over something really stupid and I started looking around trying to keep out of things or feel drawn to take sides. I found myself staring at the intersection by the restaurant where we sat and remember thinking.....just how long do red lights stay red? It seemed to be red for 5 min and the cars were as far back as I could see which is not normal. When the light FINALLY turned green I just bursted out, for no reason initially, "The lights green!!!!". Both my friends were so shocked and thrown, that they completely stopped the argument in their tracks to focus on both my reaction and outburst. Which of course caused lots of laughs and I will admit, years of reminders that followed.

Later that day when dropping them off, the last friend said thank you to me. They thought my mindless outburst was an on purpose attempt to stop the argument before it got further. So since then I learned to use it. Even, and this was purely experimental, on that first date. You know those really uneasy awkward moments? And it's quiet because your torn up over the impression you want to make vs the impression you are making, so your dwelling carefully over what to say but for the life of you you have no idea. So that awkward moment is growing into a very awkward silent time and your worried that THAT is making the impression which is worse so you start to panic. Yep, just say anything. However I only find it fair to add directly after whatever you say or do with admitting you did it because of the silent spell that had fallen. Hasn't failed me yet especially as comedy is a big part of what I love so if the person doesn't have a sense of humor it wouldn't of worked out anyhow.
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