"How are you doin'?" - a rant!- Page 2
"How are you doin'?" - a rant!
#25re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 1:53pm
My test for the "How are you doing?" question is to answer with, "I am."
If they are actually pause for a minute and appear to have bothered to listen to my response, I'll chat with them. If they just keep right on rambling, I turn into a robot.
This works especially well with telemarketers.
#26re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 2:26pm
somms, of course colin and his "dog" are exempt from my little tirades.
boobs, i avoid you because i haven't brushed my teeth or properly dressed for the occassion of accepting your schmear...
i'm not a bad person. really. just stop trying to socialize with me/my pooch when the hunt just needs to poop!
PED
#27re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 2:28pm
RobbO..just tell them that your dog is very shy and he won't poop with other people around.
BTW..thanks for the heads up on the breath thing. 
bongoboy
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#28re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 2:29pmjust 'schmear' the poop on the f@ckers...that'll keep em away from you.
#29re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 2:30pmokay, bongo, but if boobs comes home with a schmear poop makeover you know where i got the idea from!!
PED
bongoboy
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#30re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 2:35pmyes and i'll laugh my ass off...once i get out of the shed.
#31re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 2:39pmNow what did I do with the key to the shed....Hmmmmm...how will I ever open it now?
#32re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 2:42pm
two things that will never happen: bongo getting out of the shed and boobs ever looking to open it....
PED
#33re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 2:48pm
RobbO..there are many things I'd like to open, but the shed is not one of them.
#34re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 3:06pm
ahem. another story for y'all. i used to be a rather shy person who would never talk to strangers. well, i decided as i got older to try and work on that and force myself to talk to new people.
i was out taking photographs with steve, a good friend of mine - just strolling around princeton enjoy the sights. i noticed him sitting near two people talking to them and forced myself to go over and sit down to join in on the conversation.
it took all my nerve to go over there. just as i did, my friend left to take more photos. i forced myself to stay and was talking with the couple for a bit. after some small talk, i asked, "so how do you know steve?"
their response: "who's steve?" i awkwardly excused myself and cussed out my friend, steve, for putting me in such an odd situation.
moral of the story: don't talk to strangers.
PED
#35re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 3:11pmWho's RobbO?
#37re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:05pm
RobbO--
How do you arrive at "don't talk to strangers" as the moral of your story? If I understand correctly, you were chatting nicely with some strangers with whom, it turns out, you do not have a mutual friend named Steve. If the conversation was pleasant and the time was passed happily, why freak out?
(Full disclosure: I am one of those casual stroll-and-chat-with-the-dog people in the morning. I do encounter people who don't want to participate, and that's fine, but I am going to keep on doing it. My dog is extremely outgoing, and I like giving him his social time.)
#38re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:08pm
well, the time was awkward and forced (and for naught since i was to never see those people ever again).
please tell me that if you see people walking in the opposite direction dragging their dog behind them that you don't follow them for 1/2 mile like some of my illustrious neighbors. please.
PED
#39re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 4:15pm
No--I grant you, that seems excessive. I'm talking about letting my dog sit down and wait for a dog who is walking towards us with a human who is clearly not in "stroll" mode. It's kind of clear they are on the clock, but if the dogs get a few seconds of butt-sniffing in, hey--everybody's happy.
But intruding into someone's morning space or chasing them down the block? That's just crazy.
#40re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 6:23pm
it's funny. i have a breed that can never be off the leash so if i bring him to an area of my development where a lot of other dogs go there are often times when other dogs just come charging up to my dog unleashed.
finally after this happening again and again where dogs are unleashed and with no owner in site, i decided to take a new tactic. a dog ran over to mine and an elderly woman finally ambled over and asked, "is your dog friendly?"
"no, he bites" i lied.
to which she replied, "you should get him a muzzle."
"perhaps you should invest in a leash," i shot back.
i'm sorry, my dog that is on a leash, under my control and not bothering you or your dog. and you think he should have a muzzle on while your yappy pappy goes running unsupervised across the street to unknown people/dogs.
PED
#41re: 'How are you doin'?' - a rant!
Posted: 9/26/05 at 6:29pmAt last--a rant we can agree on. A dog off the leash is so irresponsible. It makes me crazy. There are plenty of very well-trained dogs that become very protective of their owners when they are on a leash--it's their instinct. And it's the thoughtless butt-heads, all sanctimonious about how "well-trained" their dog is off-lead that create the problem. If you're on a farm, that's great, but in the city you have six million other people to be thinking about.
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