I am usually a person who is uncommonly good at eye-contact when I’m talking to people and being talked to. I fidget a lot, but I’m always eye-contacting and always listening.
But I realized, at my cousin’s wedding this weekend, that I increasingly stare at people’s teeth when we talk now. Not only people with perfect teeth and not people with crooked teeth. Just all teeth.
That’s weird. I’ll bet I make people self-conscious.
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August 1, 2007 at 12:26 pm
leslie
Interesting confession. I listen better if I don’t make eye conta ct. If I look at a persons face, I get too engrossed in the details, teeth included, and stop hearing them.
August 2, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Nancy
All I can say is that it’s really hard to make good eye contact while you’re staring at teeth.