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    - Hello, how are you?

    - Good thanks, how about you...

    - Oh, you know, same... busy. You?

    - Busy? Oh, yes, as always, you know

    - Ah, thats good though... keeps you out of trouble.

    - Yes, haha.

    - haha

    - See you later.

    - Yeah see you later.

    I have my studio in a purpose built complex with shared kitched facilities for each floor. Every day I hear that exact same conversation played out by different sets of people about 50 times, ever day. I am right opposite the kitchen facility so I hear it happen almost word for word approximately every ten minutes or so.

    This kind of bullshit drives me nuts. I grinned along with it for a while, then it began to really bug me that I was slavishly going along with it, so I tried to throw it off track with random conversational diversions which made everyone think I was a quirky and interesting person... so they all 'dropped by' my studio fifteen times a day 'to see what I was drawing' which meant constant irritating interruptions to explain over and over again what I was drawing to someone who really didn't understand what I was drawing so felt compelled to ask me more questions ... so now I get to my studio in the morning and shut the door and avoid everyone studiously, sneaking out for coffee and/or visits to the little room only when I know the coast is clear.

    Now I have a reputation for being 'offish' and anti-social, up my own arse and a bit of a wanker. I know this because the gossip-fly and shit-stirrer of my floor told me so when she caught me making a cup of coffee last week.

    Why are humans so fucking irritatingly impossible to deal with?

    This is a blog entry.

    • Hello, how are you?SkyPoo
    • The other thing I do is wear my huge headphones out to the kitchen with music blasting, to make it seem...SkyPoo
    • pointless trying to talk to as I wont hear. Even so, I become aware that peoples mouths are moving, jovially...SkyPoo
    • forcing me to remove my headphones and listen to what they're saying, which is always "How are you? Busy?"... Oh fuck off.SkyPoo
    • fuck off.SkyPoo
    • I'm right there with you.Jnr_Madison
    • You are? I can't see you I CAN'T SEE YOUSkyPoo
    • Agreed. I too am known as being offish and anti-social. Mainly because I'm offish and anti-social, but mainly because I've been driven to it by imbeciles.
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    • ... I've been driven to it by imbeciles.
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    • haha spooks. Its like getting into a cab and asking the driver 'busy tonight?' and 'so what time you working till?'ian
    • << watching Peter Kaye yesterday, and this rung true.ian
    • this is my favorite post7point34
    • i can't stand being friendly or making small talk... unless i initiate it, fuck off!7point34
    • plus i can't stand schmoozing...7point34

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