The Talkers

Some folks like to dish... on themselves.

If you find yourself sharing your exploits in high school, or talking about how crazy you are going to be at your uncles' birthday, or how you once almost got a tattoo of Manuel Noriega on your neck while you were in Tijuana on a 30 day surfing odyssey followed by a short stint as a low budget documentary film maker at San Quentin you are a talker.

If you can talk about your weekend and it takes two full days to tell the story you're a talker. If people snort, grunt, giggle, run, cough, leave, hibernate, or start eating in the middle of your verbal straightjacketing you are a talker.

I am a talker - but I'm real sneaky.

Let me give you an example by going back to the neck tattoo concept. I've been talking about getting a neck tattoo 3 to 4 times a week for at least the last 8 years. I sort of think this is funny. I think that neck tattoo's are the ultimate form of self expression... in addition to skate boarding and grinding your own wheat. So here's the sneaky - when I'm talking about getting a dragon's tail inked onto my neck and I'm sort of laughing like I wouldn't really do it - deep down inside I'm hoping you'll ask me a series of questions about said body art so that I might talk about it.

These questions are:
What type of dragon?
What color are the dragon's scales?
What is the temperament of the dragon?
Was the dragon ever tasked to guard a castle?
Where was/is the castle?
What year was the castle built?
How big would the saddle for the dragon need to be in order to ride it and would it be made of leather?
Are dragons water proof?

So you see that I am a sneaky talker. Hoping that you'll ask me questions so that I may talk to you about anything. Theses dragon questions that I've just recorded are only a handful of thousands that I've already filed away in my metal question storage labyrinth - and they are just about dragon neck tattoos. Imagine the talking possibilities about shale laden soils or hip replacements.

So talk away fellow talkers. Talk it up.
Don't expect me to be an active listener though ... for I am a talker too waiting and wondering if you'll ask me about....