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Old 10-13-2011, 12:31 PM
 
Location: Tucson
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Sometimes people are doing something THEY'RE excited about over the weekend, and want to share, but they ask the other person first, to be polite/give them a lead-in to bring up their thing, and so as not to come off like a person who only wants to talk about him/herself.
True.
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Old 10-13-2011, 03:14 PM
 
Location: Kingman AZ
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I don['t have any idea.....but if I ever ask you, you can feel free not to answer cause I realllllly don't care....
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Old 10-13-2011, 08:07 PM
 
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I never understood or bought into this. If I never hung out with the co-worker why ask me that?

I understand asking if its a holiday, but a normal weekend? whats the point of asking that?
They might want to hang out with you. You have to start somwhere.
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Old 10-14-2011, 06:10 AM
 
Location: St Thomas, US Virgin Islands
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This is sarcasm right? lmao.
lmao too but also wearily shaking my head that you automatically saw the comment as being sarcastic. I hope social mores didn't suddenly become a totally alien concept and that some of the feelings expressed here aren't today's norm.

What's so weird or imposing to say to a co-worker as you're leaving on a Friday night, "Have a good weekend! Anything special planned?"? If they follow with a, "Nothing much at all, you have a good one too!" then that's that. If they respond with, for instance, "Looking forward to seeing (such and such) movie!", then why not ask some time on Monday, "By the way, how was the movie? Worth seeing?"

As poster TabulaRasa said, "I've always found people who are super guarded about basic, routine stuff to be a little odd." Me too.
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Old 10-14-2011, 05:25 PM
 
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I never understood or bought into this. If I never hung out with the co-worker why ask me that?

I understand asking if its a holiday, but a normal weekend? whats the point of asking that?
You should tell them you went to an orgy where the hosts looked exactly like the co-worker and their spouse/gf/bf. Be sure to include how great it felt when you had the big O in their rear end.
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Old 10-14-2011, 05:48 PM
 
Location: Astoria, NY
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The OP probably doesn't have much going on and is embarrassed. That's the only reason why someone would make a big deal out of an innocuous question like that.
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Old 10-14-2011, 05:56 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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I never understood or bought into this. If I never hung out with the co-worker why ask me that?

I understand asking if its a holiday, but a normal weekend? whats the point of asking that?
Maybe they are mad scientists and looking to replicate the life of a normal human being in some kind of nefarious plot to produce androids..., maybe they are trying to steal your identity, maybe they want to come over to your house and burglarize it, hence the need for your itinerary.


Maybe, perhaps, maybe they are just making fringgin small talk.
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Old 10-14-2011, 05:59 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Maybe, perhaps, maybe they are just making fringgin small talk.
Yes. I agree with this. Just a conversation piece.
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Old 10-14-2011, 06:00 PM
 
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I always say the same thing to them.

Sleeping with a possibility of drinking.
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Old 10-14-2011, 06:02 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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I always say the same thing to them.

Sleeping with a possibility of drinking.
How about drinking with a possibility of sleeping???

IDK, just saying.
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