these days
They say How are you? and think Hello! or Oh, you have a new sweater again!? or Are you lazy or what? or Do you like your boss more than me? In fact, I really don’t know what they are really thinking but I usually say I’m fine, thank you. and I think How is this possible that most of the people hit one of three the most annoying questions ever!
posted by itn@ @ 10:26 AM
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2 Comments:
Yes, oh I so agree with you. People often say very obvious. Or not say anything at all. Or ... Saying is not already thinking.
I rather think.
This all reminds me of a passage from the Hittchiker:
"Whhhrrrr. . . " said Arthur Dent. He opened his eyes. "It's dark," he said.
"Yes," said Ford Prefect, "it's dark."
"No light," said Arthur Dent. "Dark, no light."
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in 'It's a nice day,' or 'You're very tall,' or 'Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.
"Yes," he agreed with Arthur, "no light."
As Louis Armstrong put it:
I see friends shaking hands, saying 'How do you do?"
They're really saying "I love you..."
World is not as gray as you'd think it is, itnk@. Some of us really care about how you are doing.
Enjoy!
A.
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