Poor Career Choice?

Some people are just in the wrong business, like the motel owner who won’t rent daytimes to couples with no luggage. I keep encountering this one shopkeeper who is so grouchy every single time you almost think it’s a put-on, like Andy Kaufman’s whole career after his Latka-Gravis-on-Taxi days only its isn't I'm pretty sure. I was in her shop yesterday and saw a hand-lettered sign on the counter: “We Know About It Thanks” it read.“So what’s this now, are people telling you the same thing over and over?” I asked her. I thought  maybe the door to the shop sticks or something and people keep mentioning it, but no.“All different things!” she shouted. “All these news bulletins from morning till night and Did I hear there was a storm coming in and How about this heat! If I hear ONE more person ask me about cold fronts and low pressure systems I’m going to scream!”“So you’re not much for the old small-talk, is that it”?“Yep," she replied with an impenitent smile.So what I'm wondering is, How do you DO that? Get all salty that way? Because I sometimes think I could use a little salt on the old omelet but how do you do it without hurting people’s feelings, even if it is all a big put-on like Andy Kaufman charging people to be made uncomfortable by him? (Check out the video below.)I found the above image on the web by Googling  “mean signs." It shows that in some ways it's  funny when people are this awful which is why someone pulled out a cell phone and quick took a picture. But my real question is what are they doing, the people with these behaviors, like my lady with the grudge against small-talk? And do they secretly want to be kidded out of their bad moods? I sure would love to hear people’s thoughts on that. In the meantime here’s Andy Kaufman, make of HIM what you will, poor lamb. And for extra fun rent Milos Forman’s "Man in the Moon" in which Jim Carrey plays him, an amazing film with Courtney Love, Danny DeVito, Paul Giametti... (watch the trailer here) Life is a mystery all right and the ones out their on the edges make it more mysterious![youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C570byQCLpI]]