I experience the same thing from time to time and I will just leave it at that. Some people may be hard of hearing and some just don't care to respond. By you greeting first, you make the impression of being nice when they are obviously not since they do not return greeting. It's their problem not yours. They may well be having a bad day and hopefully by you greeting them, you may have helped things out a bit.
2006-12-25 00:17:26
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answered by HotInTX 5
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Usually, its because most people are so consumed with their own lives that they don't really notice when you do greet them. Some have not been taught the nuances of proper etiquette. To greet someone and have that greeting returned the person receiving the greeting initially has to already be expecting a greeting and so is ready to return in kind. This is not usually the case as a result you get one person greeting as the other just walks past or just all together ignores the greeting. So it can be a lot of reasons from prejudices, ignorance, shyness, fear, or being in a bubble that cause people to not respond when greeted by an individual.
2006-12-25 00:25:16
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answered by Wordsmith 3
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Perhaps they feel they are above anyone else and it woul be beneath them to acknowledge greeting
They obviuosly don't have what it takes to be sociable.
Of course on the odd occasion someone might not hear you or might just be too distracted to take note but there are people who are more prone to do this than most.
It costs nothing to greet someone whether you like them or ot.
2006-12-25 00:28:42
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answered by Can I Be Your Pet? 6
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B/c ppl such as myself hate to be bothered by individuals who feel they have the right to speak to any and everyone that walks by. To me i find it rather annoying when someone who does not know me whatsoever speaks to me for absolutely no reason. I mean if i walk into wal mart and the greeter says hi i do not ignore that b/c that is merely their job but when standing in line when some random person starts jawing about the movie im holding or whatever i completely ignore them...
2006-12-25 00:26:12
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answered by wcbaseball4 4
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They just down rude or think they better than you. It bad enough when you polite to people, they ignore you if you want to get pass them, so you have to push through in the end.
2006-12-25 00:38:02
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answered by pal6 2
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Deaf? Stupid? Ignorant? That just about covers the choices.
2006-12-25 00:19:56
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answered by Anonymous
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Depends how scary looking you are.
Being a city boy I'm very suspicious of people saying 'Hello', they usually want something !!
2006-12-25 00:24:52
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answered by Anonymous
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To show that they are to be Ignored !
2006-12-25 00:18:18
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answered by glover 2
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Because some people are jusr down right rude. Others are simply leary of strangers.
2006-12-25 00:13:37
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't and I have never been ignorance.
2006-12-25 00:17:40
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answered by CT 6
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