Was it the sort of “hi” that means he’s trying to humanize himself by connecting with those he considers beneath him, but ends up sounding like it’s his first day out of alien spy school and he’s also kind of a jerk? That kind of “hi”?

Haha! That was pretty much it.

The mailman didn’t verbally respond. I wish I could’ve seen the expression on his face. I bet he had a visual response.

I picture bosses as overgrown children with ADHD and a mean streak. The “hi” was the same you’d hear from a kindergartner who was only trying to lure into his web of loneliness and torment. He’d appear nice for awhile but sooner or later he’d steal your damn pants and tell Eileen Martin you weren’t wearing any when you got there.

> lure into his web of loneliness and torment

Exactly this.

Are any of these Eileen Martin?

T, one of your comment notifications went to my spam folder in Gmail… But only one. Maybe because there were a lot in a short time, I’m not sure.

I’d also like to see the mailman’s expression! Your boss’s hi reminds me of a guy in the office here - he’s the kind of person who asks “how’s it going” but completely doesn’t even hear you respond. I mean, I’m sure I could literally reply with “yellow dinosaur ping-pong” and he would never notice.

Jimi - never take your pants off for a kindergartner. It’s definitely frowned upon.

> Maybe because there were a lot in a short time

Yep, frequency is a big part of the Gmail spam filters.

Someday I’m gonna build a notification system like FB’s into the site. Email is so 1990s.

Gmail also marks anything in a foreign language as spam, and you can’t turn that off. Which is annoying if you have friends in non-english-speaking countries.

I like the notification idea.

Those twits 🙄

T: None are Eileen.

Keamoose: I know that NOW. But he had a certain kinda reasonableness about him and a je ne sais quoi that couldn’t be turned off. :)