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Nov. 16th, 2010 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreA question:
Sometimes patrons come up to the desk to check out books - not patrons who are personal friends (not...that I actually have any of those), just people who come to the library regularly so that I know their names and faces and maybe something about their reading preferences - and they say things like, "So, is anything exciting happening in your life?"
I usually say something like, "Oh, nothing, my life is very boring." But I'm always a little taken aback. So, actually two questions.
1) Is that a normal thing to ask? I mean, is that a thing that normal people find to be normal conversation? I'm not actually good at normal conversations a lot of the time, so I don't actually know and I'm wondering if I'm reacting abnormally to something that is actually quite a usual thing.
2) What in heaven's name are they expecting me to say? Even if I did have something exciting going on, these are people I barely know. Why the hell would I tell them?
People are so confusing.
Sometimes patrons come up to the desk to check out books - not patrons who are personal friends (not...that I actually have any of those), just people who come to the library regularly so that I know their names and faces and maybe something about their reading preferences - and they say things like, "So, is anything exciting happening in your life?"
I usually say something like, "Oh, nothing, my life is very boring." But I'm always a little taken aback. So, actually two questions.
1) Is that a normal thing to ask? I mean, is that a thing that normal people find to be normal conversation? I'm not actually good at normal conversations a lot of the time, so I don't actually know and I'm wondering if I'm reacting abnormally to something that is actually quite a usual thing.
2) What in heaven's name are they expecting me to say? Even if I did have something exciting going on, these are people I barely know. Why the hell would I tell them?
People are so confusing.
