Background Is there a situation where you found yourself tak

Background

Is there a situation where you found yourself \"taking a vacation\" when you were supposed to be paying close attention.

Question

How did you handle the situation? What style of speech holds your attention and what numbs your senses?

Solution

I was supposed to work as external examiner and subject matter expert in the semester exams of a reputed university last month. The first exercise was group presentation which I was to grade. I was seated in the first row and started listening to the presenters carefully. However, the other event that occupied my mind was the Annual flash sale of Amazon that was to start in next ten minutes. I had patiently waited for my favourite sports jacket that was to go on sale at noon. It started, and I couldn\'t believe my senses, it was available at 80% discount. I quickly put it into the cart and started checking out, filling out the details. To my surprise, I suddenly realised that the presentation was over and the presenters were waiting for my questions for over a minute. I was caught meddling with my phone, but quickly got into my senses and apologised them by saying that it was an urgent message from the office that needed immediate response.

All speeches that I can relate to with my knowledge of the subject and form an opinion about, are liked by me. I don\'t like the ones that are hypocritical in nature or full of hollow talks that have little substance in it, and have one point agenda of misguiding and befooling the audience.