to be fed up at people saying to me 'nice weather, isn't it' all the time?

[pointydog]

Why do people keep saying this to me? It is most annoying.

[Stayingsunnygirl]

I'll swap with you for a month or two, if you want, Lawks. You could be sitting at my pc, listening to the rain hammering down on the conservatory roof, if you take me up on my oh-so-generous offer!!

[Lawks]

Just be careful never to leave the UK. I have made that error and now it's bright and sunny and warm every single day. Every. Single. Day.

I now go up to people at toddler groups and mouth wordlessly at them. What is there to say?

[Themasterandmargaritas]

The question is do you get a different quality of idle small talk in different parts of the country?

I have found in the past the quality of chitchat in, erm Lincolnshire, for example, poor and monosyllabic, compared to the rich, fullsome small talk of the west country.

That is on the rare occasion i can actually understand it. Often I just nod and smile, I'll do anything to be liked.

[upagumtree]

lol. Have also found this freak weather occurence to be true.It's always at hometime and always when I decide to walk instead of taking the car! Had to take the car today...and guess what? It stayed dry {i give up emoticon}

[Stayingsunnygirl]

In my opinion, the chances of precipitation are high - though not as high as they were around the times that the schools let out! In my experience, if it's only going to rain once in a day, it does it at 2.50, whilst all the mums are standing in the playground waiting - and it always takes that bit longer for the children to come out when it's raining, too!

I think the teachers do it on purpose, so the mums have to wait in the rain that bit longer - in fact, I once asked ds2's teacher if this was true, and she said yes!!

[upagumtree]

Its a bit dull today up here in scotland isn't it Stayingsunnygirl. Do you think it will rain?

[wotulookinat]

Hey, Stayingsunnygirl, crap weather, innit?

[Stayingsunnygirl]

No-one says how nice the weather is to me - partly because we live in Scotland, and partly because no-one ever talks to me - sob sob [nellie no-mates emoticon]!

[wotulookinat]

Oh god people always say 'cheer up' to me and it does annoy me. I can't help it if I have a bloody miserable face!

[upagumtree]

lol@ Wizzka and abraid DrTrillianAstra Thank goodness I am not alone with this one! Sometimes I feel like saying to them "It already has happened...mind your own fucking business", but have not yet developed backbone, so just shuffle off with sarcastic smile instead.

[DrTrillianAstra]

upagumtree I couldn't agree more.

'Smile love' - I'm not your love and I don't waste smiles on people who call me love without invitation.

I think weather talk works best in countries where the weather could do something unexpected (not hot season vs dry season) even if the differences are very subtle.

[Threadworm]

The worst thing is when people waltz up and say 'What a lovely baby.' Both my dcs have developed a complex about being 'lovely'. It's not fair that society should label them in this way.

[abraid]

Someone had the nerve to say they liked the crocuses in my front garden.

I mean, what the hell was that about?

[Wizzska]

upagumtree - death is too good for them.

[upagumtree]

I dont mind so much re weather small talk. What does piss me off though are strangers who pass me in the street and say "chee up- it might never happen"!!! WTF Its always men who say it and it happens a lot. I can't help it if my mouth has a slight natural downturn...bastards!!

[OrmIrian]

I have perfected meaningless small talk. But I do have accurate non-small-talker radar. So I wouldn't try it on you pointy. I would just edge away and find a nice amenable old man.

I am finding the idea of hostile edgy small talk quite alarming. Small talk with an agenda!

Dh can't do it. Which he sits at certain gatherings with a face like a smacked arse, and I don't. He is pathologically incapable. He does try sometimes. But it never works. Like a grizzly bear trying to be cuddly.

[pointydog]

none of that on my roundabouts. They make them three lanes here so the boy-racers can overtake you mid-roundabout

[ahundredtimes]

those roundabouts needed a bit of wind though, actually I've been meaning to ask you, what do you think about that new roundabout traffic calming system they've introduced?

[pointydog]

bit blowy outside, actually

[FairLadyRantALot]

lol pointy...

[ahundredtimes]

Okay, erm

Nice weather, isn't it?

[pointydog]

yes, I wish it didn't have to end with dogs sniffing. Unsavoury.

[ahundredtimes]

[Pointy's lack of small talk brings thread to awkward close]

[pointydog]

I am not overly keen on small talk. At times I might even prefer dogs sniffing my crotch

[MitchyInge]

yes, there's nothing like a pair of unruly labs sniffing your crotch to bring out the best in you