i have a peeve, i just re-stumbled over it.
catching up with people you haven't spoken to/seen in a long while, only to have them not ask you ANYTHING about how you're doing.
you know, i'm off the mark running and asking away questions relevant to the other person, and not a peep in return, not even to the effect of "so, what's happening with you?"
and that's a bullshit question, by the way- 'what's happening with you?'
it's like you can't be bothered to cast your mind back to even one salient fact about the other person, and frame a more relevant/interesting question. like, what the hell?
this does not apply to close friends and acquaintances. a casually-tossed 'wassup?!' is just fine with them. 'wassup' covers the events in a person's life over the last x hours, or maybe few days.
but get this, i'm ping/call/meet a long-lost friend (or worse still, THEY ping/call/meet ME) and while i'm framing questions related to our last time together/what i remember of them, they're either piling on more and more trivia about themselves, completely ignoring me; or just randomly tossing a miserly "so, what's happening with you?" at the end of it all.
i ask you, how does one begin to answer that? bah!
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