You Know What Grinds My Gears?

djchameleon · 12-13-2013, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Screen13

When I get to know someone, that type of small talk is alright, especially if that person has some connection to my life (work, friends, family), and maybe I might think about posing some kind of serious conversation about it if I have the time, but when I don't know the person it seriously nags me in a "please, seriously go away" kind of way - it's even worse when I see someone who's seriously well to do talking to someone who has to work in the weather as it looks like mocking to me. A simple "Hi!" or a wave is good enough or at least a small but still non-connecting "How is it going?" will do fine. I understand that sometimes it's in good empathetic humor, and I usually pick up that tone, which is the reason for my being polite, but it does turn into a tiring cliche.

I think that's just part of how anti-social we are as a society today. I went through a period where i was attempting to be more social and I would chat up random strangers that I didn't know. I would use the weather ice breakers or something relative to where we are just to get them talking and strike up a random conversation. I usually just had to break the ice and they would go off on a tangent because they usually have something on their mind they wanted to talk about.