Talking with me · 9:28pm Apr 22nd, 2015
Ok, so when your doing a service for me (cutting my hair in particular), please don't talk to me. Just don't, to avoid a very awkward situation.
A situation like:
Haircutter: "So how is your day?"
Me: "Fine, you?"
HC: "Pretty good, we've had a lot of customers today so it's been pretty busy, but overall I've had a pretty good day!!!"
Me: "..."
HC: "..."
Me: "..."
HC: "So what grade are you in?"
Me: "9th."
HC: "Oh really? (my thought, No. Just no, I lied to you, I'm not really in 9th grade, I just said it for the lulz) What school?"
Me: "Nease."
HC: "Oh really? (my thought, No. Again, just no. I'm not a freshman at Nease, again, I said this for the lulz) That's nice, (it's really not, but you keep saying that) what are your grades like?"
I had a huge choice to make here, do I say "fine" and hope she stops trying, do I say "I have an F in all my Core classes, of which all are standard," or do I say "I'm doing ok, I have an A in everything but AP Human Geography, which is pretty hard". I obviously chose wrong/right.
Me: "Fine"
Luckily, she didn't shave off my hair or cut my neck when I said that
HC: "Really? (Once again, my thought, once again, no, I said fine for the lulz. At least she didn't say Oh) What's your favorite class?"
Me: "Uh, HOPE." Anyone that has taken the class knows that is complete BS.
She seemed to have taken the class and/or seen where the conversation was going because at that point all she said was "oh."
If she just hadn't talked to me from the beginning, we never would have had to go through that miserable experience. All I have to say is, I got a really good haircut, and I really appreciate her attempt at being a good person and talking to me, but I'm not a good person. While I did feel bad for completely shutting her down, I am happy that I didn't have to talk to anyone for the rest of the trip, except when paying. Why don't I feel bad anymore, you ask? Because I gave her a $25 tip because I DID feel bad.
The lesson of this story is: if someone is responding to you with one word answers, it is probably because they don't want to talk to you. In order for neither person to feel bad, stop talking to them... yeah.
