Tennis Matches and Conversations...

After the Disgruntled Librarians had waved the white flag on trivia the other night and all but me, Will, and Betsy had left, some interesting conversations were brought up. The three of us spent close to an hour conversing about everything under the sun. College, relationships, love, and tennis!?! Will, Mr. Analogy Man, compared conversations to a tennis match. After discussing this topic for a few minutes it made a lot of sense. Do you ever feel like you are Andy Roddick and you just keep aceing the person you are talking to? I find these are the hardest conversations ever. These are the conversations you have with an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend, person who is not happy with you, or someone with no personality. You keep on throwing questions their way and they can't seem to return them, or they are in the form of one word answers such as, good, fine, maybe, yes, and no. Answers like this are good defense, but it is hard to win a match using this strategy. Sometimes you even serve a lob over the net to try and get a rally going, but it doesn't seem to work. I hate these types of conversations, it is very tiring and frustrating. Each time you serve up a question you are thinking in your head...could this be the time that we have a rally? Well all this said I would like to know how you compare a tennis match to a conversation, that is if you do at all.