Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Negotiation

In one of my classes the teacher was talking about negotiation. So, he started walking around the class room and pulling out different examples from peoples lives. He asked who was married and then asked if the men had to negotiate with their wives. Everyone laughs and says it's more of the men negotiating with themselves and deciding what battles are worth negotiating over.
Then, my teacher calls on this girl and asks her what was the last social interaction with a human being before class. He was looking for small examples like saying goodbye to someone or see you tomorrow kind of thing. But the girl got all awkward about her story. So the teacher perused.

Teacher: "What was the last interaction with a human being before class?"
Girl: "It was with someone I cared about."
Teacher: "Did you negotiate with them?"
Girl: "Sort of."
Teacher: "What did you negotiate?"
Girl: "Our feelings for each other."
Teacher: "Did you get your feelings across?"
Girl: "I'd say so."
Teacher: "Was it verbal? Non verbal expressions? Did you two come to a common ground or meet in the middle?"
Girl: "Yes."

The teacher didn't really seem to get what he wanted out of the story from the student so he just said how their conversation was a negation on trying to get information and deciding whether to give said information.
Little did the teacher know that before class, this girl was making out with her bae before class.

 It was one of those spectacle you wished you didn't see on your way to class and would hope they would just use a empty class room next time. I think they need to renegotiate what is okay and not okay to do out in public for sake of common decency. They used a form of verbal negotiation, they used their mouths for sure to express their difference in opinions. Their preformace of non verbal expressions didn't leave a good taste in my mouth but I'm sure they enjoyed the taste of each others mouths. Oh and they found middle ground. It was right in the middle of the hall way in front of the class. (This is the problem with showing up early to class, just show up on time. I would say show up late but I'm sure people ditch class to preform "negotiations" as well.)


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