{"id":57,"date":"2006-01-28T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/01\/28\/inappropriate-responses\/"},"modified":"2006-01-28T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T17:44:40","slug":"inappropriate-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Inappropriate Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott nails it again: read his inappropriate responses<\/a>. I often find myself caught in the ‘how are you loop’ or I’ll pull one of these: “Hey Devin, whats up?” “Fine thanks, you?” I almost feel bad at that point but then I remember… most people don’t really care how you are nor want to really know what’s ‘up’. It’s just one of those ‘filler greetings’: a greeting that takes up more words than it needs to. My treatment of this superfluous Q&A session often throws people off guard. Often in line at the grocery store it’ll go as such: “Hi there, how are you?” “Pretty good.” Which then leads to 20-60 seconds of awkward silence as the “momentum” of the conversation comes to a screeching halt. I just wonder why they didn’t ask something more meaningful like “So, looks like you’re out of toothpaste, sliced ham and milk? I go through that stuff pretty quickly too” or “Wow, you’re the first teenager I’ve ever seen buy 12-dozen eggs and 14 rolls of toilet paper. Is that typical?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott nails it again: read his inappropriate responses. I often find myself caught in the ‘how are you loop’ or I’ll pull one of these: “Hey Devin, whats up?” “Fine thanks, you?” I almost feel bad at that point but then I remember… most people don’t really care how you are nor want to really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}