You're not on Mute, You Know

I'm multitasking. This is why I love the mute button when on a conference call at my house. It allows me to get some small tasks done, that my dog in and out of the house and take comment go to the host without the wise one.

I say things like;

"I agree".
"I'm with you."
"You're right."

Sometimes I say things like:

"It can not be right."
"Well, I do not put it that way."
"I do not agree with you."

Such was the case last night, during a conference call. However, I began to notice something different about this call. As always, I said a few words about myself when I saw and immediately muted. Then it was as if there were technical difficulties. The landlord seemed as if talking in a tunnel. I thought that strange but things happen. The call became stranger. In my commentary, to myself, I ask questions that seemed the host anticipated. I thought, "Wow. This guy is really great. He anticipates any question someone might ask."

Finally, in an attempt to drive his point home, he made an analogy involving a first car. He said: "Imagine your first car. And 'a stick shift with a clutch and a guide to the top of a hill and then what happens?"

I replied, from silent 'Well, obviously you start to slide down the hill. "

The host laughed, "You can do but no, you earth gas."

Then I met. The most horrible sensation washed over me.

"I'm not dumb I am?"

"No, I'm mute."

This time together on the conference call, as my unfiltered thoughts are spouting out of my mouth, people from across the nation who are listening. Suits had betrayed me. What was my ally conference call was nothing but a nightmare. I instinctively pulled the call.

What I found to be very, very strange that it was said that a person could feel. It would be good if someone had said, "You're not dumb, you know." Or "I hear you." So I wondered, even if they are in the privacy of my home and On Mute Where No I can hear, is always a good idea to let the thoughts flow out of your mind unfiltered and say out loud?

I learned my lesson. From now on, I would mute the phone and myself when on a conference call. And in the future, do me a favor? If you come across someone who seems to be chatter for no apparent reason except for their voices heard, I remind you gently, "You're not dumb, you know." I know I will.