PSA- I am horrible at smalltalk

techmaestro:

This means that if I haven’t contacted you lately it’s because I have nothing to say.

This means that if you contact me with a ‘hi, how are you?’ I’ll answer and wait for you to say something, anything, more. 

This means that when I crash in on you, it’ll always seem like I’m on a mission, even if that mission is to tell you what I had for lunch.

I don’t want to feel like I’m wasting your time or mine so I won’t contact you if I don’t have anything I think you’d be interested in to talk about. 

Always feel free to contact me if you feel you have something to say. Even if that is telling me about your fabulous lunch. 

So basically, in summary: At least tell me about lunch, or an anecdote about your day, or your favorite color. Something, anything, and that’ll be enough for me.

Just avoid the dance that goes like this: “Hi.” Hello. “How are you?” Fine, you? “Fine.” 

Because I won’t know what the hell else to say.