No Eye Contact
No Eye Contact
While walking through the halls at my job, I tend to say hello to everyone who I pass. There are a select few who purposely avoid any acknowledgement whatsoever simply by avoiding eye contact. I call it the “no eye contact getaway” from a greeting that would be common courtesy. It’s very rude and is very obvious to friendly passersby. These people who find it annoying to say hello feel that if they don’t look at the person they’re passing, that they’re doing nothing wrong. They don’t know that a hello is not as important as a simple acknowledgement (i.e., a smile). I sometimes walk down the hall and say hello to everyone who I pass and feel like I’m the town’s greeting man. I feel like one more hello and I’m going to flip out, but that never becomes the case. The question I often ask myself is, if you just passed someone and then minutes later pass them again, is a second hello necessary? And if not, is it rude the second time avoiding a hello? At this point, I feel funny, but I do say hello again. How many times should you say hello to a person in a day before that person thinks that you are obsessed with saying hello? I found that saying goodbye sometimes humors things up. So, Goodbye!
