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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are women like that in my neighborhood. There was one woman who I didn’t know very well. I introduced myself to her more than once because I wasn’t sure if she remembered who I was. She was soooo nasty to me saying, you have already introduced yourself to me before! But the tone was so nasty. Her tone basically told me to F off. She didn’t know me at all. I was just trying to be nice. [/quote]

I have met people like this too. It is so weird to me when people are hostile from your first conversation. Why? I am pretty average in appearance and presentation -- I'm not rich or poor, I'm not stunningly beautiful but not ugly either, I don't dominate conversations but I'm not aloof. I feel like I'm polite, friendly, and reasonably pleasant. But sometimes I encounter people who are rude and standoffish from the start, and I never understand it. I don't care if we become friends, I just don't want to have these negative encounters with people in my neighborhood or at my kid's school. It wears you down after awhile. I don't think it's too much to expect people to be able to just perform extremely basic manners (saying hello and goodbye, using a neutral or pleasant tone of voice, acknowledging basic connections like the fact that you live on the same street or have children in the same class). Yet a weird number of people don't seem to think they owe that to other people. It just makes everyone shittier.[/quote]

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