have you ever said HELLO to someone and they SNARL at you in return?
 

hahahha...damn. I almost took it personal!!

old lady walking her dog near my truck. I gave her a smile and said, "good morning!". she looked at me and effen SNARLED...like made noise and everything.

another lady next to me saw and started laughing...(we fist bumped)

dang, that was entertaining. I'll never pretend to understand what motivates us as individuals. maybe I reminded her of her ex-husband. that was a first!! I've been ignored many many times, but to get such a visceral response, total FIRST!!

hahahha.... could be worse. she could be my neighbor. :D

I was known to growl like a junk yard dawg before coffee...

But naw :D

There are people who are having very bad days sometimes. Can only let it roll off your back. Same person might even come around and apologize at a future date. I have had this happen. It was good closure.

Angry Cranky Biatching Karen

Some people just want to be alone with their thoughts.

Good or bad interaction with them doesn't matter. They treat both the same. I'm kind of that way.

I have a solution. Don't talk to people. Problem solved. :D

Been cursed out for holding a door open for a ratchet female.

One way to handle that...
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Another slightly more drastic way to handle it.
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Well, another reason not to go into five below.

I had a delta flight where the attendant would loudly state “you’re welcome” if you didn’t say thank you for the free pop/pretzels.

This is what I do.

I wish people would hear me, when I let them from parking lot, Etc in the traffic.

‘Free’?

Yep, old scary white guy here and we are the new lepers of society. Many Karens will not return a simple hello but twenty something girls are particularly repelled. Most completely avoid eye contact but if our eyes actually do meet, they wrinkle up their faces and quickly turn away. Imagine the horror!

My experience, now that I am a gray haired grampy in my 70s, is that I get lots of smiles and have the door held open for me by cute younger females. Three times this fall I had women ask me if anyone suggested I looked like Harrison Ford. Maybe that has something to do with it. :D

Yep.

My best corporate memories are daze I didn't speak to anyone :D.

I had access (almost no one had), and could always disappear in the "machine rooms", labs, etc. with total access to the hardware consoles, etc. Mainframes and FEP communications, way back when and then IP stuff ... twas a hoot ....

When I was left alone :D

The real gut punch is when I had a 12 year old hold the door for me! I guess I am looking like a senior citizen, even though I and only 18 in my mind.

And yes, I always say thank you, and hold lots of doors open.

Vash, at least it was not like the scene in Blazing Saddles when the new sheriff walked up to to the sweet looking little old lady in the street and said good morning.

Yeah f*ing weirdos. I mostly just get miffed that they are encroaching upon my town. I wish they would take down the bridge so the weirdos stay in the ghetto on the other side of the river. Just be glad you are not like them

Maybe it was because she could read your mind :D

Free soda and pretzels from the flight attendants.

I had a townhouse in the Bay Area that I stayed at when working there. Lots of Eastern Europeans living in the complex. There were numerous times I would say hello to a person walking by only to receive silence in return. I eventually started replying to myself out loud. “ Oh Hello! How are you?”
After that they wouldn’t even look at me. Pretty funny.