Help! How do you handle someone at classes and meetings
#91
#92
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 16,515
I'm never afraid to join a new group because someone may not like me. There are always a few members I am drawn to and a few members I stay away from. The ones that bother me I probably bother them so it works out.
#93
One night (after a couple of years fitting in with the family) she was particularly chatty and he said "Silence in golden. Duct tape is silver. Pick one." I nearly wet myself laughing so hard at the look on her face! Now it's an inside joke and he just says "gold or silver"?
#94
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Washington State
Posts: 182
My sister had a similar situation at a retreat. The woman, who was a guest and not a member of the guild, talked incessantly about anything and everything and also had a nasally voice which made her prattling worse. My sister put on her headphones and turned the volume up so she would not have to listen. The woman was asked not to come to another retreat. I stopped going to a sewing program at the local sewing business. It was monthly and there was always a teacher/presenter who reviewed new patterns and books and actually made projects from them. Instead of losing my cool and telling them to "shut the hell up" I did not join again. We paid a yearly fee for this and so it was not worth it to have these rude women yacking through the entire presentation - rude to the audience and disrespectful to the presenter who put a lot of time into making the samples. I would be firm, but not nasty, and tell the person that everyone at the retreat paid for their spot and their time there was their own.
#95
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: kansas
Posts: 6,407
I totally get this happening at a retreat where everyone is working on their own projects at their own pace. We have a retreat attendee do this and it's annoying. Since there is much chatter and helping going on with everyone, her's stands out cause she generally has no idea how to get started on the project she brought and wants someone to get her going on it instead of just giving an opinion or helping to problem-solve. Some don't mind this, but most are trying to catch up on projects that have been sitting for awhile. And that is what we've started to let her know-that we are trying to play catch-up on our projects and feeling "crunch time". She decided not to come to retreat this past time.
#97
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 16,515
You make me afraid to say anything at the new group I have joined. I'm the least experienced and now I'm wondering if I should even try to join a group.
What? And miss all of the life experiences you can't find anywhere else but with a group of quilters. Some funny, some rude, some really far out there and some nice as pie. It's worth it. Don't wear your feelings on your sleeve and hand out your scrap fabric. You will be accepted for life. LOL
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