(^116) BODY LANGUAGE SECRETS
see you as accommodating if you yield to her desire
for Mexican food instead of Chinese!
Commode is spelled like accommodate. Use this
memory association technique to prevent your affair
from ending up in the commode.
Eventually, she may be able to accept your nice
treatment of her, phone calls just to talk, flowers,
back rubs, presents and so forth. But early on she
will simply drop you.
I wish it were not like this, but it is. My helpful
hint is simple-Live with it.
Here are some detailed Helpful Hints for every-
one.
Only the amateur
thinks he knows everything.
ROBERT LUDLUM
Response to criticism, for using any source in his writing,
Helpful Hints
Keep this knowledge to yourself. Do not point out
someone's body language and tell them what it
means. Why? People will consider you ah arrogant
showoff. Besides, nobody believes in body language
anyway.
SAVE THE SEATS
Women and men, do this on airplanes as you are
boarding. Sit on the aisle. Put your property on the
window seat to prevent unwanted traveling compan-
ions from asking to sit there. When you see someone
you want to talk with coming down the aisle, dis-
creetly remove your property, make eye contact and
smile.
HOLDING ON
When a couple holds hands, stands arm in arm,
or is in constant physical contact with each other at
a social gathering, they are "saying, neither of us is
available. Another interpretation, one of us is afraid
the other will go after someone new.
WHERE TO SIT TO MEET SOMEONE
The best way to transmit and receive nonverbal
messages is when your eyes can meet and the fronts
of your bodies are facing. Choose the seat opposite
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