picture the following:
i am strolling down the sfu campus. people running to and from the lectures. busy people. really busy people. but i am strolling, enjoying freezing winter air and the whiteness of snow.
from time to time i find a familiar face in this river of people. and so i noticed chelsea, a girl from the 4th floor of my tower. she's wearing her iPod [a central charachter of this story] and generally looking very cool. she is probably listening to her very cool music, perhaps the coolest in the universe, yet she notices me and smiles.
the suspense is coming. i smile back and say: "hello, hello!" she says: "hi, i am pretty good, thanks" and so we pass each other by.
ha?
did you get that? neither did i. until i sat down in the cafeteria and wrote the whole situation down. if you still don't get my conclusion, i shall help you.
the punchline is: never say hello without saying 'how's it goin'?' or a phrase alike. let the people socially and naturally isolated by iPods can actually fit their responses to your intelligent inquiry.
