Do people ever surprise you?

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Okay people surprise me about how they act or don't act. I keep thinking they will feel how I would feel if they were in the same situation I'm in. Then I am surprised when I find out people don't act that way or feel that way in the situation.


Yesterday my boyfriend and I were going to his sister's to drop off his old TV he was giving to her. I didn't know what turns to take to get there so I was getting all stressed out and my boyfriend was telling me to calm down. How can you expect someone to be calm when they are stressed?

So after my boyfriend knew what turns to take when we get on the bus route, I am not stressed anymore so I'm finally calm and I ask him doesn't he ever get stressed out when he doesn't know where to go and what directions to take and his response was "no" and I was surprised. So I said "That explains your insensitivity and they say we lack empathy and theory of mind. Well everyone lacks it."


So has anyone ever been surprised how people don't act or feel in certain situations?

after everything i have heard from the kids at my school...no.

Last edited by Evenflowman454 on 18 Feb 2009, 4:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

All the time, it is getting less and less though. Surprisingly it usually happens with the people I thought I knew the best... perhaps because I believe I know them enough to predict what they will say or how they will react and they do or say the opposite.

...or because most guys would rather have their fingernails pulled out than admit they're lost...
it's a guy thing...

I never had a problem admitting I was lost.

the hard part is finding out what the intentions were of the people I was admitting it to. I am not always perceptive enough to recognize the undue influence other people can do with your life as they 'show you the way'.

Merle