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Spent 11 days saying sorry to a stop sign before someone told me it was a joke
Okay so this happened back in March over in Columbus. I moved to a new neighborhood and there's this stop sign at the end of my street that's got a dent right in the middle, looks like someone backed into it. Every morning I'd walk my dog past it and I just felt this weird obligation to apologize, like I'd done something wrong to it. Not out loud at first, just a little nod and a muttered sorry under my breath. After about a week it became a full on verbal apology, like 'sorry buddy, not today either.' My neighbor finally caught me doing it and lost it laughing. Turns out the dent is from a drunk driver last Halloween and the whole block leaves little flowers and notes on the pole sometimes. So I wasn't alone in treating it like a person, but I was definitely the only one doing daily apologies. Has anyone else ever built a whole routine around an object that didn't ask for it? Like a weird ATM or a squeaky door hinge you say bless you to?
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charlienelson8d ago
Noticed this happens with parking meters that eat your coins and office printers that jam at the worst time, we start treating them like they're out to get us or like they need our sympathy. My buddy had a squeaky stair that he'd say excuse me to every night for like two months before his girlfriend pointed out it was just old wood. People need to make sense of stuff that bugs them, so we give these objects a personality and a little kindness, even when they can't hear it.
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