forcing natural. [rant]

so as most of ya'll know, i'm a FASET leader. and for my non-gatech people, FASET is basically freshmen orientation. as a faset leader, i spend so much time just observing people and how they behave. and the one thing that's been seriously getting under my skin is how a few people seem to have to FORCE themselves to be natural and normal in a conversation with students and their parents. they can't have real talk with strangers. their false behavior is basically this picture...

i don't understand why you can't just be normal. the buttery, bullshit tone in people's voices is completely completely obvious. their voices get all high pitched and bubbly. they talk really slow to people who look foreign (and sometimes speak grammatically perfect english) and roll their eyes when the person looks away. and it makes me cringe because even though the parents know that you are just being courteous and doing what you've been taught, why can't you sincerely be courteous. what causes people to be that drastically different.

i mean, i'm not saying i don't change my tone for different people. of course i do...it's natural. i'm going to add sir/ma'am at the end of sentences. i'm going to smile. i'm not going to use the same diction with parents as students, that's just rude. i'm sincere about the things i say. if a parent is asking me about my life as a student at tech and how much i like what i do here, i don't feel the need to force only good answers out of my body and be all plastic. I feel like, as humans, everyone basically knows what people want to hear and how people want to hear it. there is always an excellent and optimistic way to present negative information without having to completely bullshit your way out of it.

i guess some of yall are like..."wtf is she talking about"...and some of yall are like "i know exactly what she's talking about" but yeah. i'm going to do homework.