I don’t know why this is in a comic. It actually happens to me from time to time.

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6 Responses to I don’t know why this is in a comic. It actually happens to me from time to time.

  1. Ben says:

    If social skills were high on your list of core competencies, you probably wouldn’t call yourself a hermit?

  2. coloradohermit says:

    I can pull off social, and once in a while I actually choose to do so. For the most part though, friends don’t bother asking until/unless I start it. I’m ok here on line where I’m not directly addressed and can sit invisibly watching the normals interact.

  3. Claire says:

    “… can sit invisibly watching the normals interact.”

    If we were normals, would we be doing so much of our interaction online? 🙂

    I, too, can fake social. It wears me out, but I do it pretty well. Joel is in an entirely different league.

  4. Joel says:

    Joel is in an entirely different league.

    Um, yeah. Claire knew me in meatspace before I spent many years nearly alone in the desert, and I wasn’t exactly Cary Grant then. Now I’d need a halfway house before I could function in any non-neighborhood social setting.

  5. Robert says:

    I sometimes tell my best friend “Wow, you’ve done a really good job of pretending to listen”. She thanks me and we move on. It’s dysfunctional but it works. It’s a Zen thing. I think. Maybe. I’m gonna go to the corner and rock myself now…

  6. Unclezip says:

    The Baroness says “You just stand there and be handsome. I’ll do the social.” Good reason – I tend to mutter and look shifty.

To the stake with the heretic!