Had a lady I was helping at Lowe’s comment on the weather. She was lightly questioning, partly stating, that the weather was weird, but just a normal variation. Which can be true!
Asked her to remember the snowfall last winter (that was 3 minutes), record for Florida, and our town scored that record. I was in it, it was wild.
“That was a massive bolus of hot air from the other side of the planet hit the polar vortex, sent that freezing air down here from Canada. That’s climate change, and it ain’t normal, not over human lifetimes.”
About exactly what I said, and she was a bit taken aback. Again, she was kinda questioning, feeling out another opinion. LOL, didn’t expect the guy loading bags of soil in her SUV to talk like that. I know, “And everyone clapped!”
That quote was best I can remember, and she was taken aback, could see her gears turning.
Talking to people is like mastering tech support. Talking over your listener? You’ve shamed them. Talking under them? You treated them a fool. You gotta meet them on their level.
Not everyone hears this sort of thing.
Had a lady I was helping at Lowe’s comment on the weather. She was lightly questioning, partly stating, that the weather was weird, but just a normal variation. Which can be true!
Asked her to remember the snowfall last winter (that was 3 minutes), record for Florida, and our town scored that record. I was in it, it was wild.
“That was a massive bolus of hot air from the other side of the planet hit the polar vortex, sent that freezing air down here from Canada. That’s climate change, and it ain’t normal, not over human lifetimes.”
About exactly what I said, and she was a bit taken aback. Again, she was kinda questioning, feeling out another opinion. LOL, didn’t expect the guy loading bags of soil in her SUV to talk like that. I know, “And everyone clapped!” That quote was best I can remember, and she was taken aback, could see her gears turning.
Talking to people is like mastering tech support. Talking over your listener? You’ve shamed them. Talking under them? You treated them a fool. You gotta meet them on their level.