yeah i stole it from my twitter, but it's still pretty funny. you know you've been there

7/27/2010 10:46:16 AM

youknowyoumissedit

7/27/2010 10:48:23 AM

I take an aggressive approach to banal pleasantries.

Co-worker: Hey! Ready for the weekend?

Me: Nope, are you doing anything? What time do you want me over?

7/27/2010 10:49:16 AM

Guy taking my movie ticket: "Enjoy your movie"

Me: "You too"

7/27/2010 10:49:20 AM

occasionally i get the "hey how are you" and i answer with the exact same line

along same lines as ^

drive thru: thanks, come again
me: you too

[Edited on July 27, 2010 at 10:50 AM. Reason : ]

7/27/2010 10:49:31 AM

Me: "Enjoy your movie"

Customer: "You too"




usually upwards of 10 times a day.

7/27/2010 10:52:30 AM

Them: Happy Birthday!!!

Me: Yea you too!

7/27/2010 10:57:37 AM

happens to me all the time, and usually the wife is there to make fun of me for doing it

7/27/2010 11:01:29 AM

There's always the

Guy 1: "Hey how are ya?!"

Guy 2: "Doin' alright! / Doin' alright?"


confusion


I always answer in the declarative, but sometimes people think I'm using the interrogative. It makes for unwanted answers about their personal state of being.

7/27/2010 11:04:18 AM

I've actually done that quite a few times. My boss almost always said "How are you doing?" as a greeting but every once in a while he'd say "Hey."

I think he did it just to talk shit to me what I said "Pretty Good." Always tell me that isn't what he asked with a shit eating grin on his face...

7/27/2010 11:05:41 AM

the actual conversational exchange is not awkward, for me

what is awkward is when you see the person coming from like a football field away and you have to spend the next 60 seconds of your life approaching each other, and time the exchange so that it is completed just as you pass

man, I hate that shit...if I don't like the person very much, sometimes I just duck into an alley or something

7/27/2010 11:18:32 AM

^ too

7/27/2010 11:20:28 AM

i flub up the casual pleasantries all the time (alot of the things mentioned here are things I do)


meh

7/27/2010 11:22:12 AM

just do the ol' head nod

7/27/2010 11:22:16 AM

just pretend you're texting and didn't ever see them until you get real close.

"oh, hey whatsup man"

7/27/2010 11:23:39 AM

Gym receptionist: "Enjoy your workout."

Me: "You too."

7/27/2010 11:26:04 AM

Me: "Thank you for shopping at Harris Teeter"

Customer: "You too"


Indeed. Your welcome.

7/27/2010 11:45:11 AM

My neighbor does this 100% of the time.

Me: *anything at all*

Him: Pretty good!



He's cool, though.

7/27/2010 11:55:41 AM

Quote :

"Them: Happy Birthday!!! Me: Yea you too!"

Every. Fucking. Year. I do this >.<

7/27/2010 12:04:31 PM

Ticket taker: "Have a pleasant flight."

Me: "You too!"

7/27/2010 12:11:39 PM

When delivering pizzas:


Me: "Enjoy the meal."

customer: "You too!"

[Edited on July 27, 2010 at 12:18 PM. Reason : .]

7/27/2010 12:17:50 PM

it's 100% worse when you're using to bowing in Asia, and you bow to people over here. Not a huge, bend at the waist bow, but still...

or you hold your right wrist gently with your left hand, because it's how they do things in Korea...

yeah I probably get a lot of or after I walk away...

7/27/2010 12:33:25 PM

this thread is 190% truthful

7/27/2010 12:52:44 PM

Is there any thread in which magdalena cannot find an excuse to talk about Korea?

7/27/2010 12:57:27 PM

Quote :

"USING TO BOWING"

7/27/2010 12:59:48 PM

7/27/2010 2:06:18 PM

haha i did this shit just the other day

went like this:

Friends mom: "you're as handsome as ever"

me: thanks! so are you!

Friend looks at me: handsome huh?

me: shaddup

7/27/2010 2:07:57 PM

Quote :

"Guy taking my movie ticket: "Enjoy your movie" Me: "You too" "

happens every damn time to me

7/27/2010 2:58:21 PM

Me: "Have a safe flight"

Pilot: "You too"



hear this one a lot

7/27/2010 3:10:53 PM

Quote :

"what is awkward is when you see the person coming from like a football field away and you have to spend the next 60 seconds of your life approaching each other, and time the exchange so that it is completed just as you pass"

My office suite is at the end of a very long hallway off the main common area that has (not counting some utility closets) only two other doors along the entire way. It seems like every time I come or go, there is someone coming the other way and this situation occurs. I spend an inordinate amount of time looking at the walls like I've never seen them before or pretending to be lost in thought so that I'm not staring at the other person for 100 feet of space until we pass. Then I try to give a nod or some minor pleasantry, but half the time the other person continues looking down or away and walks past without a word.

Sigh, politeness.

7/27/2010 3:11:44 PM

That used to get me all the damn time working in Richmond.

7/27/2010 3:17:02 PM

^^ I lol'd Americans are crazy

I smile and sometimes wave like I'm really excited when I see someone from far away approaching me.

[Edited on July 27, 2010 at 3:22 PM. Reason : my input]

7/27/2010 3:20:36 PM

Quote :

"drive thru: thanks, come again me: you too"

I do this a lot at grocery stores and stuff.

I always feel like a moron after doing it too, but its usually because im not really paying attention to what they are saying.

7/27/2010 3:30:14 PM

^yeah when i know people aren't listening I always want to say "fuck your mother" in a really chipper tone. Haven't yet tho.

7/27/2010 3:32:56 PM

qntmfred: "yeah i stole it from my twitter, but it's still pretty funny. you know you've been there"

me: "you too"

7/27/2010 3:41:30 PM

this thread is cracking me up. love it!

7/27/2010 3:48:21 PM

that's why I don't return pleasantries. I just say "thanks"

as in:

Quote :

"Co-worker: Hey! Ready for the weekend? Me: thanks "

[Edited on July 27, 2010 at 4:52 PM. Reason : .]

7/27/2010 4:51:51 PM

Them: Hey! Ready for the weekend?

Me: FUCK OFF

7/27/2010 4:54:39 PM

Three options:


[Edited on July 27, 2010 at 4:56 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on July 27, 2010 at 4:57 PM. Reason : ]

7/27/2010 4:55:57 PM

hahaha stupid habit of being polite!

it always leads to these random awkward moments.

7/27/2010 5:14:41 PM

Quote :

"I smile and sometimes wave like I'm really excited when I see someone from far away approaching me. "

If I see someone coming from far away, I look really alarmed and act like I'm trying to frantically hide or run away, while glancing back at them every few seconds.

7/27/2010 5:52:48 PM

I always hate it when you misjudge someone's distance while holding the door for them.


Or when someone breaks out the handshake from like 20 feet away.

7/27/2010 6:42:27 PM

Quote :

"NUMBER POUND AWKWARD"

7/27/2010 7:09:20 PM

number pound?

7/27/2010 7:56:01 PM

Yeah, everybody else has done, at least once, the thing where you're closing up a phone conversation with somebody (like the first time in your life that it's related to a non-family conversation or a conversation with a friend):

Friend: "Hey yeah, nice talking with you, I gotta go."

Me: "Yeah, talk to you later, I love you too..."

*click*

Me: *thirty seconds later* "OH GOD WHAT?!?!!??!"


Of course, the conversations were different because I think the last time I did this I was well under ten years old, but fuck it was embarrassing when that happened.

7/27/2010 8:11:25 PM

ok, can't say i've ever done that one

7/27/2010 8:12:21 PM

they had somethin like that ^^ on King of Queens

carrie's boss' name was Doug and she got off the phone and was like "love ya Doug"

7/27/2010 8:41:26 PM

Quote :

"Is there any thread in which magdalena cannot find an excuse to talk about Korea?"

meh, probably not. we all have our vices, eh?

[Edited on July 27, 2010 at 9:51 PM. Reason : I have to wonder why it's FroshKiller who seems to reply to my posts the most ]

7/27/2010 9:30:43 PM

AHA, I've told so many people that I love them by accident. And there's no way to bring it up like, "Oh, by the way, I don't actually love you. You ain't shit."


And pretty much half my conversations begin:

"Bridget! How are you?"

"Oh, nothin' much. Just chillin'."

7/27/2010 9:47:53 PM

^ OK, explain. How do you tell people you love them by accident?

7/27/2010 9:50:55 PM