I appreciate greatly that Dominicans are very attentive, and I oftentimes find myself amazed at them reminding me about things I said maybe 10 years ago.
It's one of the things that makes you feel wanted and cared for, one of the great advantages of living in DR.
Also, many of my Dominican friends can look at me and find out about my mood, that's amazing, they can read you.
Now, there is a situation that is less pleasant and I experienced a million times, and I would like to find out the reason, and maybe a way around it.
It's the part where you are talking to somebody and you KNOW they have no distractions, they are in front of you, nobody else is around, you are not talking about something controversial, you are talking in good and fluent Spanish, and they are good friends of you, they are listening because they WANT to listen.
You start a conversation by stipulating something, like "Remember Fulano De Tal..." or, "When I went to the supermarket X..."
So you talk for three or maybe four minutes, no longer, when they stop you and ask "Who are you talking about?" or "Where did that happen?".
You don't want to offend them by saying "Three minutes ago I started the conversation by saying just that", so you do repeat, until...it happens again in 3 minutes...
Man, the frustration!
It happened to me a MILLION times.
My theory: they want to tell you something but out of respect they let you talk first, if there was a Dominican in front of them, he/she would look at them and find that out in half a second and ask them to tell him/her what's on their mind.
Somebody gimme a clue!
It's one of the things that makes you feel wanted and cared for, one of the great advantages of living in DR.
Also, many of my Dominican friends can look at me and find out about my mood, that's amazing, they can read you.
Now, there is a situation that is less pleasant and I experienced a million times, and I would like to find out the reason, and maybe a way around it.
It's the part where you are talking to somebody and you KNOW they have no distractions, they are in front of you, nobody else is around, you are not talking about something controversial, you are talking in good and fluent Spanish, and they are good friends of you, they are listening because they WANT to listen.
You start a conversation by stipulating something, like "Remember Fulano De Tal..." or, "When I went to the supermarket X..."
So you talk for three or maybe four minutes, no longer, when they stop you and ask "Who are you talking about?" or "Where did that happen?".
You don't want to offend them by saying "Three minutes ago I started the conversation by saying just that", so you do repeat, until...it happens again in 3 minutes...
Man, the frustration!
It happened to me a MILLION times.
My theory: they want to tell you something but out of respect they let you talk first, if there was a Dominican in front of them, he/she would look at them and find that out in half a second and ask them to tell him/her what's on their mind.
Somebody gimme a clue!