Where [. . .] is the political or entertainment figure you just can’t stand. It’s Dick Cheney, or Kim Kardashian, or Rush Limbaugh, or Michael Moore, or… well, you get the idea. Elevator’s stuck, all indications are it will be on the order of hours, not minutes.
How do you break the ice? Or do you? Do you glare at Sean Hannity for four hours? Do you try to explain to Nancy Pelosi how much better free market solutions are? Do you scream at George R. R. Martin for killing off your favorite characters?
Who are you trapped with, and how do you start a conversation, if at all?
I think I’d tap a member of his SS detail on the shoulder, tell him I’m okay with them making up a story that I tried to harm their charge, and ask him to shoot me.
I hate to resist my own hypothetical, but there’s not too many people I can’t stand. I’d welcome the chance to discuss issues with a captive-audience liberal politician. I’d tell Nancy Pelosi how lucky I felt to have the chance to discuss the failed attempts Congress recently made in the area of gun control, and see where the conversation led from there.
But if I were stuck with Vladimir Putin, assuming his English were up to it, I’d be at least a bit hostile about putting him on the spot concerning the Ukraine. Of course, I’d hope it was a smaller elevator, lest he respond with judo skills instead of reasoned debate.
I realize Ms. K has not exactly been a blushing virgin in her personal life, but it might turn out, being a married woman now, she might not wish to fuck you.
There is always something to talk about that does not touch upon what you might hate about that person. People have interests beyond the main issues that you know them for, talk about those things. And the things that you know about a person, you don’t really know, you only know what you read or hear about.
Rush Limbaugh has been in radio a long time, ask about the business, how it works, how it grew, he is also a big Apple/iPhone geek, football fan and golfer.
Nancy Pelosi has a large family, ask her about them. People love to talk about their kids, and even more about their grandkids.
Kim Kardashian, you talk about her, that is the only thing she is interested in.
I mean, we all spend normal time talking to people we otherwise can’t stand to be around. Family reunions, Thanksgiving dinners, class reunions, blind dates, company picnics, long car trips with your spouse, you can do it.
Apropos of nothing but I’m finding it interesting that asserting one would have sex with Kim Kardashian is worthy of approbation, but mugging Bloomberg is apparently understandable enough.
You don’t mug Bloomberg, you pull out your concealed weapon, unload it, tell him how it works. Then you give it to him and keep talking about it in a sane manor. Let him get used to the feel.
Assuming some conservative host/pundit (Limbaugh, etc) I’d just make small talk and if we got into politics just say that I’m a Democrat and let it go from there. Pollyanna of me perhaps but I’d like to hope that we could still have a civil conversation for a time especially when they’re not required to be “on” for an audience.
Rape is ALWAYS worthy of opprobrium (not just in February), and I’m not entirely sure why the poster chose mugging as a meaningful form of interaction, so I didn’t choose to comment, is all.
Ummm, you DID mean “opprobrium,” right? I’m pretty sire “approbation” means the opposite of what you intended.
I’ve been stuck in an elevator. Whoever I was with, I’d make sure I tried to keep calm and as pleasant as possible in a bad situation. Even if it was Nancy Grace or Adolf Hitler.
