Generally, yes. Specifically, also yes. You can still let shit slip, once you've built up a little trust and understanding. When people don't understand what you're saying, it tends to make them feel stupid and then mad at you for making them feel that way. Not a good foot to start on. Polite eases things most of the time.
The burden of bein' Country Mouse being one that I've had to bear my whole life. Plenty of people that won't be bullied or blackmailed and I've been big on survivalism since I was small. And if you can't get 'em one way, you get 'em another.
You're guiding with a 'to your degree of comfort' gentle hand. If they pick up what you're putting down, that's the work. You can only offer them an alternative and be willing to argue with them without trying to humiliate them.
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You're gonna have to talk to him boring and normal like, I know, does your suffering never end
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should i be like
polite???????????
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Generally, yes. Specifically, also yes. You can still let shit slip, once you've built up a little trust and understanding. When people don't understand what you're saying, it tends to make them feel stupid and then mad at you for making them feel that way. Not a good foot to start on. Polite eases things most of the time.
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cant i just exploit all their weaknesses and blackmail them into behaving
we used to be a proper country
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It ain't business; you can't bully them into understandin' you or cuttin' a deal. You'll get used to it.
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You're guiding with a 'to your degree of comfort' gentle hand. If they pick up what you're putting down, that's the work. You can only offer them an alternative and be willing to argue with them without trying to humiliate them.
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Avoid doing that and you'll do plenty fine, Roman. You graduated for a reason.
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I don't know if I know how to do any of that.
[ BUT: ]
i can like
text you right??
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Text me anytime you want. Just cause you graduated doesn't mean I stop caring or that we ain't some kind of family.
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Thanks, Raylan.
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