Wanna have a fun time? Next time you're in a restaurant with someone, quietly and slowly, while in conversation, start pushing or putting things, like the salt/pepper shakers, the posy vase, etc - over the halfway line onto their side of the table.
Watch them start to fidget and get more and more uncomfortable - You are 'intruding' on their invisible demarcation line ...it's called "territorial imperatives" -
Once, for about a week, I was going around just walking up to people and handing them an object, saying only: "Here, hold this," over 80% of the people would take it before asking me why.
I saw this happen with 2 people whose desks were facing each other. The one a-hole moved her stuff over-over-over, I guess because she was an important management intern, until it was on the other person's desk. That person, in turn, instead of just pushing back at opportune times, BLEW UP. Made the few days of conflict kinda worth going to work to see.
"Wanna have a fun time? Next time you're in a restaurant with someone, quietly and slowly, while in conversation, start pushing or putting things, like the salt/pepper shakers, the posy vase, etc - over the halfway line onto their side of the table.
Watch them start to fidget and get more and more uncomfortable - You are 'intruding' on their invisible demarcation line ...it's called "territorial imperatives" -
I don't get why it is fun to cause someone to fidget and get more and more uncomfortable. You ruin someone's meal to prove to yourself something that is common knowledge? Way to go!
I'd be willing to bet that their "fidgeting" and discomfort had less to do with any "territorial imperatives" than it did with their rising concern that they were seated at a table with someone who was obviously playing some passive-aggressive game, or who was so tightly wound that he couldn't stand to have objects on his side of the table and might snap at any moment.