I recently went shopping with a girl who I met about two weeks ago. I will call her my friend to communicate the issue easily. We were exploring one of the stores, and we came across what appeared to be a decorative water spout. My friend asked the store employee what it was while simultaneousl...

A while back ago, my friend married. I was sent an invitation when no one was at home, so it got recalled and sent back to the sender (my friend, at a nearby town). A little background on this friend: we are classmates back in junior high school, in a small 20 person class (other class got 40s),...

A quick cultural and personal background: this refers to Germany, and I am terrible at handling ANY kind of even mild conflict with people, especially people I don't know. When in queue in a supermarket, how do I tell someone that I feel crowded by them? I am fine with a CART right behind me, bu...

Is it good to use the abbreviation words in my professional communication? I generally uses the Mail or Skype to communicate with other. In that case, many times I used such words like ASAP, CTN, FYI etc. So when should I used these words or I should not used them?

In Workplace, they have an off-topic close reason for "what to do" question, because it attracts opinion-based answer. Is this kind of question on topic here?

Background I work for a very small company that's been around a long time, we do a mix of processing customer products and consultancy work. We have a reasonable mix of customers, working for multiple departments of some of the larger ones. The problem It's a feast or famine industry. Sometime...

After the summer holidays, I'll be a senior in high school. My year consists of about 100 people, and I approximate that I've never had a word with 30-50 of them. It's not that there were no occasions - while I generally don't share classes with these people, I have happened to sit next to them o...

How can someone let their neighbour know that the adjoining properties are not as "soundproof" as they might suppose? This in context is about terraced housing (UK usage) or row housing (US usage). The issue is of some delicacy as it can be assumed that sound carries in both directions through th...

I'm going to ask for a moratorium on questions from Interpersonal Skills Stack Exchange from appearing on the sidebar in the Hot Network Questions list, until a later date. We've had a number of questions go onto this list which have all received incredible amounts of activity. However, with thi...

Some people can be a bit predictable and longwinded and it's very easy to guess what they will say, it's like playing chess and guessing a few moves ahead. It happens often that a person only started to ask his question and I am already giving him an answer/solution interrupting him in the begi...