"Surname" lol

“Good day.” Good day? Are you serious?! That’s what someone said to me as they passed me walking to campus the first week of school.

The things I hear on campus never cease to amaze me. Every time I try to have a nice little walk to school, all alone in my head, blaring ipod and all, someone tries to talk to me. Why? Why does everyone around here feel like they need to speak to every other person that passes?

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a mean thing to do. However, it’s inconvenient to the other person for a number of reasons. One, they simply may not want to be bothered at 7:30 a.m. in the dark. It’s odd, it’s weird, stop doing it. Two, maybe they can’t hear you. Some people are really into their Kayne West and Britney Spears to have to be constantly aware of their surroundings. Three, maybe some kids have grown up in areas where talking to random people gets you gunned down. Maybe.

But in what world do I live that people still say “good day”? For real? And another oddity that occurred today….even more weird, a guy knocked on the apt door and asked for some random girl that doesn’t live here. So, being a concerned citizen and fellow Saint, I wanted to help him and asked her last name. To my surprise he said “Oh, I don’t recall her surname”. What the blank! Surname? Really? Did he really just speak like that in my doorway?

Had it not been for my civilized roommate standing behind me, I might have fallen to the ground with pure laughter. He wasn’t even one of those trench coat, yoda wearing guys either, so I was somewhat shocked at his comments.

I want to go home.