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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in a hospital, and today I was headed to get some soup in the cafetria, and I noticed a woman had dripped the soup all over the styrofoam container. I do it all the time, the stupid ladles they have are terrible for pouring into the container. Anyways, she was busy trying to clean it up and I essentially said, "Ugh, that happens to me all the time, I know it's so frustrating." I was really just trying to make her feel better, because I always feel mildly stupid when that happens.

She turned around, kept saying "What?" louder and louder, and I thought maybe she was hard of hearing, and I said, "I'm just sorry that happened."  She looked at me and said "This is none of your business. What happened here is none of your business."

I apologized (although I'm not sure why), and immediately wrote her off as a being a bit mentally off....

But... I got to thinking. Did I do something wrong? She's right, it's not any of my business, is it not normal to say things like this? I guess I personally kind of like it when someone tries to strike up a conversation like that, but perhaps others don't? Is it wrong that I think she may be mentally off? Perhaps her response was normal? Perhaps she's having a bad day in other regards (after all, she is in a hospital).

[b]I guess I'm struggling with something socially (in terms of colleague relationships) and feeling left out, so I'm second guessing some of my normal social responses. [/b]

Perhaps I should just keep my mouth shut in the future if I don't know them.[/quote]

Just wanted to say, you're not alone here. Do you have any good friends outside of work? I ended up feeling better after talking to an old friend - I didn't even mention the issue I was upset about, but she just said something about how she was so excited to see me in a few months and it made me feel better that someone who knew me so well really liked me and it took some of the sting out of the other issue. Anyway, I hope you feel better about that. (And ignore the lady's response, you were fine). [/quote]

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