robert thefamilyghost wrote:this is sort of tangential, but why the fuck do people (you don't really know in the first place) insist on asking meaningless personal questions while you're walking past them (most notably at the workplace)!? "how's it going?" "how ya doin'?" if things were not going well and i were in fact feeling like shit to answer their question truthfully would make them uncomfortable and i'd be looked down upon for answering the question they asked in the first place...and besides, what sort of a question is that to ask someone IN PASSING? (especially in the restroom...ESPECIALLY standing at the urinal...)
Ugh - just last night I'm at Wal-Mart and I go in the restroom and it's TINY - tiny, crammed little dirty room. Anyways this BIG older fellow is washing his hands while I try to begin using the urinal. I hear a mumbling from him, which in this day and age I usually assume some weirdo is on a cellphone headset or whatever, so I ignore. 10-15 seconds later he repeats himself, only now speaking distinctly and in a somewhat challenging tone of voice "How YOU doin'?"... I'm standing there holding my junk, trying to concentrate on letting out a nice piss, and it suddenly becomes really creepy that he's more or less insisting I acknowledge his question...
"Alright" I say....
"You don't look too happy!?" he says...
(now I'm really thinking WHAT THE FUCK and I just want to RUN out of there even if I'm not going to be completely zipped up, etc.)
"Jus' tryin' to concentrate!" I reply
he waits 2-3 seconds and then he says something like "Line of fire - I gotcha!" and then finally walks out of the restroom.
I would like to think I would have been brave enough to say "Who the fuck are you trying to talk to some stranger who's trying to take a piss?" but that can be really hard when:
a) you're in a more vulnerable position (pants undone to do your business)
b) dude is between me and the door and it's a *little* restroom
c) he's HUGE
d) he may not be quite right in the head in the first place