Fishing For Unicorns

Okay, I haven't updated very frequently, so I'm making up for it...sort of. Big whoop it's not like anyone reads this thing. Well, just in case some bored Inuit is sitting in his DSL equipped igloo and stumbles across my ill informed views and was actually upset that I haven't posted much in a while, here's another one.

I've been wondering this for a while, so I'm just going to throw this out there - why does nobody say what they mean? And I'm not talking about when you're talking to someone you despise and rather than smack them in the face and call them a whore, you make polite conversation and act like you don't want to kill the bitch, no, I'm talking about when you talk with close friends and family, and you act like you're fine when you're quite obviously not. We make them fish... why is that?

The usual start to a conversation goes like this:

Hi, whats up?

Not much, you?

Yeah, bout the same. How are you?

Yeah, not bad. You?

Yeah, I'm alright.

Eventually, you know these two will end up talking up a storm about every aspect of their crappy lives, but to start with they have to go through this ritual. Wouldn't it be so much easier to start with,

Hey, whats up?

I'm depressed... my family just got gored by a herd of rampaging unicorns

Yeah, I hear that's been going around. Well, I just won the lottery and am living
on the moon. So how have you been?

I just told you, depressed. Unicorns, remember? Oh, and no one loves me.

Man that must suck. Ah well, at least the unicorn didn't get you!


Seriously people, why don't we just cut the bullshit? You know the two in the first conversation would eventually get around to whats shitting them, or what they've been up to, after making one another tell by pretending to be interested, but why not just SAY it? Surely these friends of yours will be good enough friends that they want to know, otherwise they won't fish.

Short and sweet.Lou