I know I crib about people, a lot, and even THAT is probably an understatement but honestly is it my fault I come across crackpots, assuming the law of majority is not faulty and I am NOT one myself. Take the recent incident for example, where I encountered a senior colleague who is a friend (not a close one but one with whom I have had coffee, whose family I know and who has dropped in at my place not to mention whom I sms and tease a lot!)  having coffee while I was with other office friends (all of whom he knew too!) and he passed by with a barely muttered hello!

On the inevitable queries from me later, he initially told me I was with people he had no desire to interact with, then went on from there to calling me too ‘sensitive’ to such breaches to being shy or reserved as reason for what I regarded as ‘stiff’ if not downright ‘weird’

My pointing out the rapidity with which his reasoning to explain what I regard as an absurd situation was met with silence which makes me wonder, wonder if not greeting someone you know is limited to bosom buddies and family. Last I knew the world was way simpler were a simple hello to people you knew was a basic courtesy with no 2 whys about it. It is the total shrugging-off-as-trivial attitude to stuff which is the MOST BASIC norm of social interaction that I know which makes me question if I am the alien here or him, more accurately them (most people in my perverse world seem to side with him I guess!)  for one of us is definitely from some other planet if not galaxy!