“Have a nice day.”
“Don’t tell me what to do.”
Or my favorite:
“How’s life?”
“Taking forever!”
Its not a race, dude :D
Then why is it called the human race? We must be in a hurry to get somewhere!
My go to is “Do I have to?”
i legit avoid stores where the staff are notably friendly and talkative. i just want to get the thing i need, not feel obliged to talk and rude if i’m not in the mood [which is unfortunately often, but still a reality]
Yeah, the US especially is bad in that way.
And the fact the niceness is clearly forced and fake doesn’t help.
Yep. Servers in the US already have miserable work lives, and having to put on a smile and fake niceness because your take home pay depends on how much you get in tips is just terrible.
In my experience this mostly happens in the burbs. Once you get into the city no one gives a fuck about who you are and just wants you out of their line
I always skip going to restaurants for a while if one of the staff starts recognizing me. It’s like yea that was a nice guy but I don’t really want to be having conversations in the 20 minutes I have to go get lunch and go back to work.
Omg are we the same person? I actively avoid bodegas, caus fuck that same person behind the register shit. Much rather go to Walmart, where corporate America has so thoroughly destroyed their workers’ soul that they barely acknowledge your existence.
Introverts and misanthropes are not the same thing, kinda sick of people acting like they are.
I’m not a misanthrope or an introvert. I hate that question because I don’t want to tell people about my shitty day but I also don’t want to lie.
I just have some empty phrases for that purpose, like “It’s going!” or “It sure is a day!”. Feel free to combine with facial expressions that are difficult to interpret for maximum confusion.
Thing is, it’s smalltalk. Smalltalk serves a purpose and it’s not the acquisition of information, so your concrete answer is kind of vain.
Smalltalk is rather for getting an emotional feel for each other. It’s the first step towards any sort of interpersonal relationship. And it can also lead to deeper topics, but it doesn’t have to.No, that definitely isn’t its usual purpose. We do it to soften otherwise mechanical interactions where there is no expectation beyond the exchange of information required to facilitate a transaction.
Small talk serves multiple purposes, it does both things, not just one or the other.
My go to answers are: “I’m hanging in there”, “been better, been worse”, “oh you know how it is”, (if they ask “how’s it going?”) “it’s going”, etc. You can be honest without being candid.
I’m introvert but I don’t understand
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“No, I have not. I do not categorize days in good or not good days. All days are the same shit, but on some days I care a little less.”
