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One Day Of Time Research Paper

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My mom, dad, and me all work and go to school at different hours, as a result we have a habit of misunderstanding one another such as who is picking up my sister, Alaina. During the weekdays my parents work while I am at school, but at night or on the weekend when they are home I will be at work or at an after school activity. We do not have a lot of time that we are able to figure out our day to day schedules as a result when my mom says that I have to pick up my sister, but I tell her I cannot one day but can another day. There has been many times where Alaina has been left at bowling practice or at school without a ride home because my mom thought I was picking her up and I thought my dad was picking her up. Texting is an essential part …show more content…

One time texting resulted in my mom and me realizing that no one had picked Alaina up and it was 30 minutes after Alaina’s practice had ended. The one large thing we could improve on that would resolve Alaina not being picked up on time would be talking things through. There have been many times that instead of talking all the way through who is picking up Alaina on everyday during the week we will only talk about Monday and Tuesday and it results in Alaina being left at practice and Wednesday because we all thought the other was picking her up. To improve on finishing our conversations we need to either make a written schedule over the weekend when we are all home or even text one another our whole …show more content…

There was an incident that I was talking about how I did not like how work was going lately and my guy friend, Jack who also works with me, said a few words for the whole conversation. Even when I would ask him if he was having the same problems he would just give a one word answer. I try to engage in conversation and many of my guy friends will stick to those one word answers, like Jack did. When I actually can get them to engage in conversation they say exactly what they mean, such as when my friend Max will give me his honest opinion about music instead of just agreeing with what I have to say or not saying anything at all like many of my female friends do. I would like for my guy friends to actually initiate a conversation. They will stop me and ask how I have been or what I have been up to, but they rarely will talk about themselves. I could ask more directed questions to try to get them to talk about

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