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By: tj

tj — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:52:02 +0000

pure snobbery

By: TelepathicParrotMindControl

TelepathicParrotMindControl — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:48:41 +0000

Kim:
You give a look of (hopefully) genuine concern, and say “I’m so sorry.”
It’s called allowing yourself to recognize we are all human beings.
Dare yourself, you’ll do better than you think.

By: TelepathicParrotMindControl

TelepathicParrotMindControl — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:46:50 +0000

I think it is clever, and I think if you wrote this, you’d have to be pretty unconcerned with how many friends you have in the building.
He’s probably a smoker and has to spend countless hours standing in front of the building, greeting and re-greeting every neighbor and hearing “Cold day, huh?” a thousand times.
If my hypothesis happens to reflect reality, doesn’t this make just a bit more sense?
Well, it does to me.
By the way…
MAN is it cold up here right now!
Wish I wore a better jacket.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:31:21 +0000

Lots of people – Canadian born or not – can’t spell.

By: John

John — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:04:19 +0000

Now THAT’S funny! I’m going to try that later today: “So, did they ever find his teeth?”

The original is just antisocial. Berating others’ attempts at contact is like the people who complain when someone says “have a nice day” with “don’t tell me what kind of day to have.” It’s a litmus test for assholes.

I would make sure to talk about nothing but every finite detail of the weather with this bozo – I’d even call for hourly updates, and email every weather link I could find. THAT’S passive aggressive…

By: bobby

bobby — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:46:59 +0000

I lived in an apartment last year that was trying to be a little community or neighborhood. When I moved out I left some things next to the garbage because they were still perfectly useable. It’s like the equivalant of leaving something on the curb at our apartment. But before I was even done loading up the van someone had thrown it in the garbage. Why does perfectly good stuff end up in the garbage when other people in the community could use it?

By: kim

kim — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:51:09 +0000

That note ís snotty.
I too hate small-talk, I’m lousy at it. I don’t know my neighbours and don’t really have much to say to them. I’m happy to just exchange polite “‘good morning”s and “good evening”s really. But the weather is a popular topic with the old folks here too. I live at the top floor so have to sit out their boring talks.
On the other hand, one time out of the blue a lady started telling me how her husband recently passed away and how she tried to keep a brave face on the street, but cried every time she entered her appartment. I was baffled and didn’t know how to react… The weather is just a safety barrier I guess.

By: niteraven

niteraven — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:51:58 +0000

Ok..ok.. I admit it. I shaved my head in the stairwell a few times. Once..perhaps twice I spit in the elevator. My crack head friends and I DO tend to be a bit sneaky and avoid everyone, but I have never…repeat NEVER thrown away any perfectly good stuff!!!

By: schmassion

schmassion — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:37:33 +0000

OMG… I know that building.

By: Spruce Moose

Spruce Moose — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:31:04 +0000

So what else is new? Another American-Bashing Canadian. Believe it or not, many conversations down here begin with a brief discussion on the weather. And we do have four seasons here in California, too, just after summer, Spring, getting ready for summer, and summer

By: WanderingPenguin

WanderingPenguin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:36:08 +0000

See, the way I figure it is this person said they have only lived “here” for 3 years and by that perhaps they meant “Toronto” and not just that building. I imagine they came from some not-so-far-away land where they leave the “u” off of “neighbour” and don’t like indulging in small talk with people they bump into in the building.

Now if only we could work out exactly where this mythical land might be….