inane conversations

ever thought about how inane our 'polite conversations' sometimes are?

today, while rushing to work, i saw this man tap another on his shoulder. guy B, has his earphones plugged in, turned and then upon recognising guy A, waved 'hi'. he then proceeded to remove the earphone from his right ear.

guy A: "good morning! listening to music huh?"

guy B: "morning! sorry, what did you say?"

guy A: "listening to music?"

guy B: "yeah, yeah!"

and if you had seen me at that point, you would've seen a HUGE thought bubble above my head saying "what the... ??!!"

i mean, isn't it obvious what guy B was doing?? did guy A expect an answer like "no, actually, i'm watching a movie with my space-age contact lenses. i can watch a movie AND see where i'm going at the same time! you should try it sometime!"

duh.

and then it got me thinking, hmm, we do ask a lot of stupid questions and have inane conversations while trying to be 'polite'. for example, we bump into someone at the food court. we say our hi's, and then proceed to ask each other, "having lunch?". like, DUH??!! maybe one day i should just reply, "no, actually. i love the free food smells in here, so i came by to hang around for a while."

ok. i know this is quite an inane blog entry too.

haha. now back to work.