I'm friendly....dammit....

I'm friendly dammit...just misunderstood.

Ok. I pass a coworker today and say "HEY." Totally ignored. I ask her where another coworker is. Totally ignored again. Raising my voice "I SAID HELLOOO." Finally, it registers.

What is wrong with this picture? (I aks her) You have a "smiley face" and I don't.....but I am SOOO totally friendlier than you.

I'm friendly people, dammit.

Having to raise my voice to be heard makes me think of my childhood. I was raised in a house of women (except for my dad, of course...but he wasn't there too often), and a house of loud German and/or half-German women none the less. LOUD peeps. So, I was used to being talked over.

I am accused of being too quiet. Maybe the rest of the world is just too damn loud. :)

I ain't stupid.....many a time I have seen how my one sister's really big mouth has gotten her into trouble. Silence is golden...it keeps your ass outta trouble.

Now, whenever my coworker passes, she says (real loud and overexaggerated like) "HI MARK."

I'm not impressed.