post 1 for interpersonal comm class

  This is my first post into the the road ahead.  I am going to post communication encounters and the outcomes if there are any.  I will analyze the way I viewed things to the way I view now, presently speaking.  I will put thought and clarity into my actions in order to help with future communication encounters.  Hopefully a self reflection such as this will aid me in all aspects of my life.  Communication is the key to success and without it I believe that we would be doomed.  Too much communication can have hazardous results as well.  Over explaining can lead to frustration and make things even more unclear than they were before.  We must pick and choose our words appropriately at according times because once words are spoken they can not be unspoken!  I try my hardest to apply such measures in my life it seems as though there is always someone out there waiting to push my damn buttons.  However it is up to me to choose how I will let such a person affect me if at all.  I try to find the humor in things, that is how I alleviate tension.  I don't mean to laugh when something bad happens, but if you are there telling me the story it isn't that bad.  My friend growing up was driving his '88 toyota tercel on an exit ramp and ran over a skunk.  Straddling a big skunk in his little car threw him off the road and flattened two tires.  His first call was to my house from a gas station nearby and he did not get any sympathy from me.  Instead I erupted in laughter at that very thought, the might man made machine was thwarted by a stinky skunk.  If you have ever ran over a skunk you know it doesn't smell good.  I could smell him through the phone and realizing I wasn't going to stop he simply said "come get me" and hung up.  I could have not laughed as hard as I did a chuckle would have been ok, but I have a very ticklish funny bone.  The facts are he was alright enough to walk to the store and make a sound phone call, it wasn't that bad.  He did not perceive it in such a way, hence I was called the asshole.  A brief introduction with more current events to come.