Communication Chaos Champion Gifts

'Mike! Come in! Mike, you left your walkie-talkie in my truck! Mike come in! Mike, you there?'

"My email is down... talk to me."

Inclusive speech

"No, I really DO love you. It's just that my committee has some issues."

Couples' therapy

Teamwork

"He keeps reissuing everything I take issue with."

"There's more inside."

WHO checklist

"This is the communications workshop, right? Let’s get started, I’m prepared!"

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

'Is there such a thing as over communicating?'

We never got anything done around here until we invented verbs.

"I suppose we should start with listening skills!"

Paranoia vs Social Currency.

"Marriage is driving me crazy and she's my designated driver!"

'He has a very open mind. Everything goes in one ear and out the other.'

'I think both of you are always too busy: You don't talk anymore...'

"How should I know what I'm thinking? I'm not a mind reader."

"You can't just put on the uniform whenever you don't want to have a conversation, Barry."

Seeing the marriage counselor.

'A Telegram, M'Lord.'

Bird on phone: 'Hold on, I have caw waiting.'

"Is it a 'personal attack' if I can prove he’s an idiot?"

Jigsaw puzzle shaped speech balloons.

"You're the on who said we couldn't afford to send him to obedience classes!"

"Lately she refers to me as her 'insignificant other'."

'With three teenage daughters the phone never rings twice in this house!'

"After endless delays, boarding confusion and lost luggage, it appears he's finally arriving at his conclusion."

"The company's information flow is really simple: the boss doesn't tell the department managers anything, they don't talk to the team managers, who withhold everything from the workers."

"We've been married so long you not only finish my sentences you start 'em too."

"How long has your husband gone through life with these 'blinders' on?"

'This beer is pale and tasteless.' 'Your glass is empty.'

Good disciplinarian gaining respect vs. scary nutcase.

"Before we got married you said you were oversexed."