Stall stories

                                                Stall Stories

                Rush into bathroom almost knocking over random person in the hall who you mumble an excuse me to without even bothering to see who it is and finally getting into a stall. Once you are settled and happy you made it there safely you notice what in a way resembles a newspaper. These stall stories are found everywhere from the bathroom to dorm rooms even to the employee bathroom. Is this because people are more likely to kill their bathroom time by reading a newsletter? These newsletters are full of actually important facts, helpful tips, and fun crossword puzzles or riddles. I guess the 30 seconds I spend in the bathroom should be used to read as much as this as possible.

                My RA gives us new stall stories on almost everything going on in campus and provides us with some useful tips and strategies that are actually relevant. Last week she had one up that was all about conflict resolution which reminded me of this class. She made a series of this stories the first one was about the different ways to argue and when the argument is appropriate to use based on the situation and who you are arguing with. In other words the context which fits in with our paper we wrote this week. The second was about realizing that the opinions of a person did not define who that person is and that you should take their point of view as what it is. Most people do not do that when they argue instead they connect people opinions with their values and then believe that people are defined by their values. The last story was about forming your arguments in a logical way that the other person can understand or connect with. The next time you are going to the bathroom look for a stall story because you never know what you can learn.