To wish people would drop that annoying question are you ready for Christmas?

[Netcurtainnelly]

Are you ready for Christmas?
No. Please dont.. Im never ready for Christmas. I loathe and detest it. Stop being so boring and asking that.

Im ready for a holiday though or the Spring.
Funny how that never gets asked.🤔🙄😱

Sorry. I say it, but I’m not great at small talk and always thought it was a safe question. I’ll work on expanding my repertoire.

I'd be a lot happier engaging with a person who used a harmless cliché to be friendly than to feel I had to come up with something sufficiently novel and interesting lest a person dismissed me as 'boring'.
If you think people are boring based on their opening gambit, then move along and keep looking for the witty and origional, and hope they find your conversation passes muster.

I hate it as well OP.

I work serving people all day and after weeks of being asked it 25 times a day, I dread it. It's so boring and awkward.

If people don't give a shiny shite about the answer then just don't bother saying it?
I'm honestly not miserable, I'm actually quite friendly I do chat with customers but I don't know why I just really hate that kind of pointless small talk where nobody cares about the answer. Just order your stuff, say thanks and go enjoy it.

I like conversations where they ask about the local area or say "I know it's a bit early for a drink but it's my birthday!"
"This is an interesting building isn't it? What was it before?"

As a customer I always go for the self service checkouts because I equally hate the "Have you been up to much today?" When I know they don't give a shit and have to say it it.

I don't really see the issue, unless Christmas holds traumatic memories.
Otherwise be honest, whether you love it or loathe it, ready or not. It's just an ice breaker.

Whatever you say or ask, someone will be offended. That's why most people stick with the most common questions, including "are you ready for Christmas" which can start an actual conversation, or make a polite 1mn small talk.

If you really hate it and have better things to ask, why don't you do it then? instead of waiting for the other person to come up with a random question?

The easy fix is too obvious it seems.

It seems people are just increasingly intolerant of any attempt to make friendly chit-chat, and incapable of engaging with strangers. Then we wonder why society seems unfriendly and more harsh than it used to.

I saw the old bloke over the road earlier. We had a chat about the weather and all the leaves on the pavement. I don’t give a monkeys about either of those things but we both passed the time of day, I felt connected to another human being, he probably felt the same. It took literally 3-4 minutes.

I really don’t see the problem.

There is a world of possibilities, yes.

But nobody owes you anything more than a casual, topical remark.

This.
I agree with you OP. I don't really understand what the question means!