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Old Dec 12, 2006 | 10:30 am
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Originally Posted by MariaSF
As we started taxiing, the wife turns back to the husband:
She: Aren't you going to make conversation with your travel mate (me)?
He: Why?
She: Just to be nice and polite.
He: I don't have to talk to strangers. I'm not here to make friends.
She: Say, at least, "Have a nice flight".
He: No, I don't care.

They said all that in German, thinking it would be some kind of private conversation, but I do happen to speak German too.
If the conversation had gone ugly (about me), I would react, but it wasn't necessary.
I think the appropriate response would be, with a perfectly straight face, to tell the wife that it's okay, that her husband has no obligation to talk to strangers. Then you wait a second and smile just a little.
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