Unfortunately, in life it isn’t always possible to communicate or understand others clearly. Perhaps our emotions, cultural backgrounds or lack of articulation lead to misunderstanding simply because the message wasn’t clear or was too ambiguous. My mother is one of those people who I love dearly, but sometimes communicating with her is quite a mystery. About two years ago I attended my sister’s modeling show with her and my then boyfriend, Jason. The modeling show was held at the Village Stadium at the University of Minnesota campus. When we arrived, the show had not started yet. We spoke to the security and they told us that we could sit in the front row of the VIP section since we knew the designer and one of the models (my sister was the model and her friend, who we knew really well, was the designer), we thought it was just fine. As the show started, a few ladies motioned at us and told us that we were in their seats. We thought they were kicking us out of the area and my mother got upset. She made comments to the ladies about how inappropriate they were and threatened to sue for many frivolous reasons. Security got to us and kicked us out of the VIP area because of the fight. My boyfriend and I graciously left, but my mother became confrontational with the security. The hilarious part of the whole thing was that the security guards were afraid of her and didn’t know what to do so they allowed her to stay in the VIP area.
If we had stopped to listen to the ladies by our seats, we would have discovered that one of the girls was missing her purse and she was asking us if we had seen it. We thought she was asking us why we had their seats. With the noise and show going on, there was very few opportunities to have a decent conversation and truly understand each other. Unfortunately, we were victims of circumstance and environmental noise pollution. Have you ever been in situations where the lack of clarity of ambiguity was out of your control?
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