Sincerely insincere

Its a very important tool which I find myself using very often, of course I am talking about the insincere smile. It looks like a normal smile except you do not show any teeth and you try your best to upturn the sides of your mouth. Unfortunately, My insincere smile either looks sleazy or as though I am constipated which really isn't the intended impression I hope to protray.


Nonetheless, I use it oh so often while tranversing the corridors, toilets, elevators or any tight enclosed spaces which may present the potential situation of encountering a fellow colleague. These predicaments puts me into a really tight spot and I prevent languishing by imagining monkeys with cymbals giggling hysterically which brings me to my happy place and causes my brain to freeze.

Back to the issue at hand, social decorum dictates that you can not say hello to your colleague as you have been in the same office or rather same room with them for the entire day. However conversation would be unacceptable as it is difficult to end it abruptly in 30 seconds and god forbid if the conversation were to carry on beyond the allocated 30 second time limit.


Hence the insincere smile. It great for these sorts of interaction where you don't wish to make a big commitment yet at the same time you assume you are a great way to stay in the game within the office politics, until that is you read this post.

Watch out for those insincere smiles as you know the above thoughts are lingering at the back of their minds. Think up of new ways to avoid the situation or provide new innovative solutions. I think my next plan will be to give the pocahontas wave, the chimps are just giving me a bad reputation. Remember this, don't be taken in by those false impression. Instead bask in your new-found knowledge and give your widest closed-lipped smile as you know you are being sincerely insincere. I pity the fool!