Overheard - contributed by dogwalker on 05/03/2009

  

Guys Communicating

Guy 1: Hey.
Guy 2: Hey.
Guy 1: (looks at sky)  Rain probably.
Guy 2: (nods)
Guy 1:  (after pause)  Good for the lawns.
Guy 2:  (glances at lawns)  Yea.
Guy 1:  (clicks, 'unlocks' his car)   Have a good one.  
Guy 2:  (clicks, 'unlocks' his car)   Yea. Have a good one.  ...overhear more

--Overheard in: Sidewalk by driveways, 7:00 A.M., Before Work--

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Words of advice: exchanging

- submitted by Bryan P. Carney on 06/18/2009

Words of advice: exchanging pleasantries isn't rude, unnecessary, nor interesting to my ironic sensibility.

Small-talk isn't small in the scheme of human interpersonal communications. Small talk is a vast symphony of human voices expressing the most interesting thing ever said: I exist.

Believe me that the greatest minds have been grappling with this statement since the dawn of our age of man.


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