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Sep. 28th, 2012 07:29 pmSo, here is another "Sara doesn't know how to talk to human beings" question.
When you begin a conversation with someone and they say "Hi [your name]! What d'you know?", what is the expected response? I feel like I've never actually learned the script for that one and my occasionally over-literal brain freezes for a moment, trying to select the thing that I know that is appropriate in this particular instance.
Today, I was silent for about ten seconds and came out with "The plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces are called 'aglets'."* It seemed to go over well and I may try to keep it as a stock response to the question**, but it still felt awkward.
Talking to people is hard.
*It was a wrench not following that with "Their true purpose is sinister", let me tell you.
**Storing up stock responses is often helpful for me. I also have a stock search term for whenever anyone at the library asks me to do a random catalog search to see if things are working or if I know how to do certain things, because otherwise I spend far too long deciding on something to search for. My stock search term is "Dracula" because something always comes up.
When you begin a conversation with someone and they say "Hi [your name]! What d'you know?", what is the expected response? I feel like I've never actually learned the script for that one and my occasionally over-literal brain freezes for a moment, trying to select the thing that I know that is appropriate in this particular instance.
Today, I was silent for about ten seconds and came out with "The plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces are called 'aglets'."* It seemed to go over well and I may try to keep it as a stock response to the question**, but it still felt awkward.
Talking to people is hard.
*It was a wrench not following that with "Their true purpose is sinister", let me tell you.
**Storing up stock responses is often helpful for me. I also have a stock search term for whenever anyone at the library asks me to do a random catalog search to see if things are working or if I know how to do certain things, because otherwise I spend far too long deciding on something to search for. My stock search term is "Dracula" because something always comes up.
