Can you predict everything anyone will ever say to you?

Tim Willow
Aug 31, 2018 · 2 min read

I always found conversation difficult.

Two reasons :

  1. I can’t maintain a pretend level of interest for longer than one second.
  2. I can’t break my habit of telling the truth, which seems to be social suicide.

I needed to find a way round this.

I needed a plan for when dialogue fails.

If I didn’t speak then would I actually be lying?

Without speech, I could pretend interest for much longer by just nodding and occasionally moving my eyebrows up and down randomly.

The Plan

I got some carded paper and I wrote down a response to everything anyone could possibly say to me.

I wrote it on a few cards small enough to fit in a pocket.

I figure I could keep different cards in different pockets so I could communicate quickly.

I would never have to talk again.

I had my cards at the ready.

Yes — No. — . Don’t know — Nothing

None of your business. — What do you think?

How are you? — No reason — Because — mmm —

Ha-Ha — Funny — -Go away — Fine

I like frogs

What’s that in your hair?

My card was at the ready.

What do you think?

Yes.

I moved both of my eyebrows up showing my empathy.

None of your business

I like frogs.


Tim Willow

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