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written 19 Apr 2005 while the sun tried, at least, rising

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When you’re passing someone in the hall or encountering a clerk at a corner store, and you say something like “Hey what’s up?” do you actually mean it as a question? Usually the reply is another “how’s it going?” or “Hey, nice day, eh?” but no one ever really expects a reply, right? Or am I just rude for not giving an answer to their answer given in the form of a question.

I particularly like when I say “Alright, well take it easy” or “Hey have a good one” and they reply with “Okay.”

HAHAHAHAHA oh man that’s so grand. “Okay, Nathan, I will have a good one.”

I’m glad I could convince them.

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    yea, i never know what to do in those situations…i always take “whats up” as a greeting, but when people say “how’s it going” or “how are you” i always have to say fine, even if at the point they said it they were walking and already practically past me.

    - julie | 10:29am 19 Apr 05
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    hahahaha

    but if you’re really cool, then you’re the one saying the confusing things. all people really want is for you to match their tone.

    i think the way you respond says something about who you are, or at least your current mood(DOY!), but anyway, if someone says ‘what’s up,’ i know i could say, ‘oh, not much,’ and continue what i was doing, or i could say, ‘not much, how’re you,’ or i could just say, ‘how’s it going.’

    but if you’re the first one to speak, you may have to respond, per this example:

    you, ‘hey, how ya doin’
    them, ‘fine, you?’

    at this point in time, you may not consider the greetings complete unless you respond.

    don’t think that because i continue to go on that i’m very into this subject and have been waiting for it to be breeched so that i could explode my bag of information at all of you, more, i just find it funny that i started explaining it all, and so i continued without abandon. BAM!

    - chad was marco | 10:42am 19 Apr 05
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    I find the whole thing quite tiresome… especially since I freelance now and often visit an old workplace where there are 20 or so people to say hi to all the way up the stairwell.

    I’d much rather people gave up on the whole pointless “whats up” thing as there is always the danger it may turn into a conversation neither party is really interested in, ending up with “So….. lets hook up for a few pints some time.” “yeah.” which you both know will never happen.

    It would be better to just acknowledge each other with a friendly smile and have done with it.

    - olivia | 10:53am 19 Apr 05
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    Yeah, Julie, I find it hilarious when you’re like 10 steps down the hall shouting “Oh things are great!” back down at them. Usually I just mumble off into my own inside giggles at that point.

    Oh and livia, if anyone ever asked me to “hook up for a few pints” they sure as hell had better mean it because all I ever want to do is stand at bars and order pints instead of beers. “A pitcher of pints, please, gov’na…”

    Also, I pass the same people all day in the hall and so after the third of fourth “Hey Ed! How’s it going?” replied to with a head nod and he says “Nathan…” in a drawn out, friendly sort of replacement for hello way, well around the third of fourth time I just start going “AAAAKHASHFAKA!” if you can imagine that sound, but though it’s in caps and has that exclamation point, it’s actually very soft when said. You can tell it has umph though, like when you’re singing in a car and a part of the song comes on where the singer would normally scream, but to indicate that you actually whisper the song.

    Think about it. You do it.

    and don’t think I forgot about you Chad, anyone who continues with abandon and then throws out a BAM! is deserved of a good firm handshaking, a stern look of sincerity smack dab in the eyes and a grin that says “If I were a dog, I’d sniff your crotch.”

    - ClickNathan | 11:05am 19 Apr 05
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    As for hooking up for a few pints, I would be down.

    But totally off the subject notice those little green marks at the end of every comment. They say: delete-comment, have those always been there? And can I really delete others comments I would try but I don’t want to end up pulling a Nathan on any one. HAHAHAHAHA BURN!!!!

    - st0nes | 11:08am 19 Apr 05
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    You shouldn’t be able to delete other people’s comments. I should be, and maybe Olivia as she has admin rights, but no one else…

    Those little green lines are replaced by trash cans on your blog (and everyone else’s) but they’ve seemed to go wacky on mine for some reason. It’s one of the bugs I’m working on. Same thing with the “Email Post” links just after the link to view the comments…

    Also, I don’t want those grey bars to stretch all the way across the screen, but they do, though they should be contained in the pages main holder div. I don’t have the dexterity, wisdom or experience points to fuck with it right now though…

    - ClickNathan | 11:28am 19 Apr 05
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    Still what a BURN!!!! HAHAHAHAH!

    - st0nes | 12:02pm 19 Apr 05
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    Hint noted.

    Ooh and I’m soooo tempted to press that little green line just under Bob’s comment. It’s begging for it.

    - olivia | 01:33pm 19 Apr 05
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    HEY what happened to your profile pic? Where’s the cowboy gone?

    - olivia | 01:34pm 19 Apr 05
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    Fixed

    - olivia | 01:40pm 19 Apr 05
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    yeah, there’s lots of things breaking and fixing around here

    - solarlumberjackshera | 01:57pm 19 Apr 05
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    My profile pic is still there, at least in the comments section anyway. Look harder, eyeballs, and you’ll see.

    Ooh and what exactly is fixed?

    - ClickNathan | 03:22pm 19 Apr 05
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    I fixed your profile pic. You had a case sensitive thing going on.

    - olivia | 04:05pm 19 Apr 05
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    oh I see, and here I thought that you were referring to those silly grey bars going on for ages……….

    - ClickNathan | 04:23pm 19 Apr 05
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    What are you complaining about!

    - olivia | 01:21pm 20 Apr 05
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    I’m not complaining about anything.

    I do, however, like a bit of sugar in my iced tea.

    Speaking of which, I’ll be the iced tea.

    - ClickNathan | 01:44pm 20 Apr 05
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    HAAHHAHA! Oh Nathan you can be so dim sometimes. Let me spell it out for you:

    Your hint was noted. You now have a working blog.

    - olivia | 01:55pm 20 Apr 05
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    Ohhhhhhhhh.

    HAHAHAHAAHHAAH aww man thank you Oliviest. You really are just too wonderful and look, it’s all exactly the way I wanted it and everything.

    Oh manlivia, I’m such a creature of habit, as I definitely remember using all of the little icons today to edit my blog, but totally didn’t even think “Hey, look, they’re fixed.”

    I REALLY appreciate that, especially as I know how extremely busy you are right now. You’re just too wonderful to me.

    Thanks.

    - ClickNathan | 02:32pm 20 Apr 05

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