Successful Failure

Occasionally when you ask anyone “how are you” or “how is your day going” they would respond with “I’m fine” or “my day is going good” or “how are you.” In with this observational activity I tried taking it further to where I would get into description of how I was or how my day was going when they would ask back. I tried to engage in a full conversation with them, successfully failing at accepting the typical response.Doing this activity I felt really good, I had high expectations that I would get the expected results of engaging on a full conversation just from asking one simple question. It was fairly easy because at the store I was surrounded by a lot of people that I could attempt it with. Another thing is I think of myself as a very social person so to me it would not have been a problem asking random people how they were. On my first attempt I came across an elderly woman, I asked her “hello ma’am how are you”, she responded back by saying “I’m very well, how about yourself” I right away responded with “well I’m actually tired right now, I had to wake up early to come to work so I kind of wish I could take a break and take a quick nap.” She responded by being a bit surprised that I had told her this; she took it in a way as if I were complaining about working. She told me that work is a natural thing and that once I got home I could take a nap. She also wished me a better day.On my second attempt I tried it with a middle aged woman and did the same exact thing. This time although she really did not give me a response. It felt as if she ignored my comment and proceeded with her day. I was not really surprised by the action of actually commenting back to my response. I was more surprised on how far some of those people decided to take the conversation. One took it pretty far while the other didn't, and the remaining one just responded to where they felt they met the answer to my question.