#ximerilliferosity

Why do some people aggressively elect to *not* talk about shared interests, when they clearly want to make some kind of conversation? I’ve encountered this phenomenon a few times, mostly by talking to people from dating apps but upon reflection it’s happened with people I’ve met organically too. Like we’ll have some interest in common; programming or martial arts or something and that’s always exciting to me right?! so I’ll toss out a handful of conversational hooks on the topic, only to be shut down with some single sentence response. At which point I’m like “okay, I guess they don’t want to talk to me” - which, you know, that’s fine - so I’ll stop responding. But then I’ll immediately get some boring-ass bs question like “what did you eat today” like ??? 

why are you doing this ?? 

Them: “Sheet music isn’t sexy”