I have a sad angery face too. But, people should mind thier own business. Once some one did that to me and I flat out told them, "my mother just had a heart attack and I can't get to where she is for an other three days. Did you need help with something?" I was at work. It was a bad day alright.

Ohh and my mom is fine now.

Ah. XD
This happens to me all the time as well.
I don't talk alot when I'm at home and when my friends randomly show up the bombard me with questions on why I'm not speaking as much.
When they fail to realize I'm very introverted.
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It annoys me quite a bit.

People do that to me all the time too, but I tend to be snippy so I don't really blame them. It really does get annoying though. Worse is 'turn that frown upside-down'. It makes me want to slap people. I once answered a guy with 'I'll turn something upside-down' and he got all freaked out and looked at me like I was a serial killer.

Really, people are just trying to be nice, but I have no idea why people think that sort of thing is nice and not just irritating.

See that's kind of annoying. If someone is happy is not necessary to express it by smiling. There are moments for smiling and moments that not. See you can't be smiling all the time, people will think you are crazy. :XD

I personally don't like to smile. Not that I'm emo or something, I'm happy but I just don't like to smile. Even on pictures, my relatives always tell me to smile at family pictures, but I don't like it. So in all my family pictures I'm serious.

sorry to say, but no one has ever said anything like that to me...
Probably because my face has color and I hide the fact that I am in a bad mood when I am in a bad mood. I am really good at disguising myself.

Also I never smile cause it hurts my face, so maybe people can see that?

Ah its funny, I almost always have the same expression on my face, especially when I'm around strangers, it makes me look like I'm pissed off when I'm actually calm and not angry at all, lol. So people tend to think I'm constantly in a bad mood, in a way its funny though.

I agree with some of the people here, their saying it just to kinda cheer you up or whatever.
But I've never actually heard someone say that myself.

No one has every said that to me, but to be honest if they did it would seriously tick me off. First of all, if I'm upset it's none of their business. I don't know them, they don't know me.

Second of all, if I'm upset about something, it's really going to make me feel so much better to know that everyone around me knows there's something on my mind, now I get to be upset and self conscious.

Finally, what if it is that bad? What if something absolutly terrible just happened, and I'm doing my best to cope with it and put it out of my mind, and someone just walked up and reminds me that I've got something to be down about. Even if they're trying to be nice, there are some situations where you should just keep your thoughts to yourself. Sure you might help, but you also might just make everything worse.

I agree with what you're saying. I don't go around assuming how random people feel and tell them about it, so I don't like it when other people do.

Wow this thread generated a lot of posts. I'm suprised lol.

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Aw come on! Are you callin me mean? Now don't be depressed from our anger lol. I was just saying how people say it in a rude manner. I agree that sometimes people say it as a nice thing. Most of the time when a person says it to be an ass, it's pretty obvious. If you've ever worked or been in a place where people don't give a damn about how you feel, then you'll start to get angry from comments that others make. Like this woman I work with said to me, "You need to smile more, you have this look like you hate everyone here." I had to bite my tongue because I know she dislikes ME. In real life, I try to be a nice person and I do smile, but I guess people don't see it because I'm a wallflower no matter what I do. And I guess that makes me upset that my feelings are translated into something sad or angry.

For cranky casey: I'm not really sure what your post means. It's a little jumbled honestly....Do you mean that people who say "smile it's not that bad" are more mature and are trying to tell me something? I want you to explain this because it doesn't make much sense to me. And please, no one else answer for casey :)

Whenever people say that to me, I end up smiling anyways.
Of course....usually they say it with a big, goofy grin, so I can't help NOT smiling.

That's a funny way to respond! :D Which country are you from by the way?

And sorry about your snail in the picture. I hope he has a good afterlife, if you believe in that :)

In my country, smiling is the same as breathing,
<ahahaha>..same goes for karaoke!!

He may have thought you were mad or upset or something and thought he would try to make you smile or something. People are strange creatures most of the time

Naw, not saying anyone is really mean, but I WILL say that I was more than a little surprised at all the angry responses. It IS obvious when someone says it to be an ass, and from reading responses, I didn't take many of them to be aimed at those types, but at the more genuine people who say it to try to be nice or help. I've been a waitress more than a few times. Actually, every job I've had except my military service was very public and customer service oriented, so I've dealt with all kinds, but I've rarely heard the smile comment because I DO try to keep a smile on for them (customers). In my personal life, I try to smile and laugh a lot as well. It helps make the bad times easier.

I agree about cranky casey-I couldn't understand what was being said either.
I like that response-and said with a laugh and funny look I think would make anyone laugh.