Do you ask random questions?

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I asked mom what's for dinner she said she didn't know then a thought poped in my head I'll text my sister and ask if she was making Spaghetti she said know and why I said just curious. The actual reason is she uses different sauce than mom and I wanted to try how she makes her spaghetti but didn't know how to phrase that in a text so I said just curious which sounds silly LOL! Does this sound similar to you just asking a random question?

I ask random questions, if I can't think of anything to say. I make them so random, that I ask them about everything that typical folk talk about, and than I try to go into monologues about those things.

i often lie about my intentions when people ask why i asked a question and the truth is that it was part of a very long thoughtline and i don't feel like going through the epic process of explaining the whole thing and having my reasoning misinterpreted anyways.

Sometimes when I am trying to be social and participate in conversation I will say something that is way off. My friend was trying to tell me a story about what happened at this club with her boyfriend and I asked her if she was drinking and what? and she got mad and said "it has nothing to do with the story, so who cares." It obviously was a random question, but I saw validity in it.

Not random to me, but perhaps seemingly so to others.

Recent example: I was speaking on the phone with a client (he was on a speakerphone), and I heard his wife say something like, "...get off that phone..." and "...those mongrels...," and she sounded rather angry to me.

I knew these facts:

- He has two dogs.
- His wife is diabetic.
- She sounded angry when I overheard her on speakerphone.
- I had spoken with her briefly on a couple of other occasions and her tone always seemed very pleasant.

So when I spoke with him the next day, I asked if his wife had had a diabetic hypoglycemic episode the previous evening, because I had interpreted her comments and tone as perhaps a symptom of neuroglycopenia. I didn't explain this, and he seemed completely confused as to why I had asked, although he didn't press the issue (mercifully).

She was fine, but had become rather annoyed at something one of the dogs did, and so I got only partial information that evening. Had I overheard something like "carpet" or "rug" or "sh*t" I would have arrived at a different conclusion and not even bothered to ask.

I should just stick to business over the phone.

Yeah, this is sort of a quirky (annoying?) thing I do when I don't know someone very well but think they're interesting and might want to get to know them better.

I guess I like asking weird people weird questions. I like seeing how different people react to weird questions. I like totally absurd and pointless arguments - I mean "arguments" that make you laugh.

Seems some people find this annoying and others find it charming. The ones who enjoy it are the ones I continue to want to get to know better.