| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 7/14/2009 12:27:46 PM | I'm fully capable of doing it. It helps to be in a job that requires actual person to person confrontation.
But some people I'm not interested in starting a conversation with, as they just appear creepy. I also try not to talk to random stranger girls around my age anymore when I'm in a relationship. Then it makes it look like I'm hitting on them. The last time I did that she ended up writing down her number and giving it to me.
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 7/14/2009 12:39:18 PM | Very true, Alli oop, many seniors are open to chatting with strangers. Just a few moments has the ability to enrich the lives of both chatters. Watch out for the creeps though, lol.
Connor, no need to feel awkward, just smile and say "thanks but I'm in a relationship" or throw it away. | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 7/14/2009 1:34:16 PM | I talk to strangers all the time, whether they want me to talk to them or not. Usually, they respond favorably, but sometimes, they just want to be left alone.
It's amazing what you can learn about total strangers. | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 7/15/2009 8:18:25 AM | I speak to strangers without forethought. Just happens. I do it so often, I stated it in my profile. I've also lived in and have traveled through and to a lot of places. I find friendly people everywhere but some locales seem inherently more friendly than others. There've been many times where my neighborly small-talk with the cashier or bank teller or person waiting in line was met with a silent that more or less meant, "What? What do you want?" But most? A smile or a bit of friendly banter can make a person's whole day brighter.
..and for the guy who noticed his striking up a brief, casual conversation with strangers in his own age-group might be viewed by them as flirtatious, yeah, I've noticed that too. | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/6/2009 10:05:34 PM | I talk to strangers all the time...I was looking at makeup and stop a girl shopping also looking at makeup and ask her what she used. She showed me and we started talking...We laugh and had fun talking about makeup...I'm just a people person and talk to all walks of life...very interesting what you learn about others... | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/7/2009 12:40:44 AM | I can talk to just about anyone on any subject and have a good conversation. Get me at the shooting range and I will talk to damn near everyone. My favorite is on the range when a old vet comes up and starts talking about the rifle I have and how he carried in the service, I load it up and hand it to him and let him fire a few rounds. Then we sit and I get to hear some great stories and I made a new friend. I also photograph a lot of people I have never met, I get them talking and relaxed and I get better photos.
I also make a point of talking to people when I am doing my job as a photographer as I am always approached by other photographers because most have never seen a camera like the one I use. I also enjoy giving them tips on how to improve their picture taking as well. I also hand out business cards to those I talk to and about 80% of them e-mail me. | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/7/2009 12:51:30 AM | when i lived in nyc, i'd talk to everyone. i'd get into a cab and come out with the driver's entire life history and information about the country he came from. my one friend told me i should have become a lawyer. my other friend told me i was just a yenta! nonetheless, i miss nyc. you can learn a lot from people from all over the world.  | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/7/2009 8:51:01 AM |
when i lived in nyc, i'd talk to everyone. i'd get into a cab and come out with the driver's entire life history and information about the country he came from. my one friend told me i should have become a lawyer. my other friend told me i was just a yenta! nonetheless, i miss nyc. you can learn a lot from people from all over the world. Yes, I think it's too bad divinebovine was warned not to talk to strangers when she visited NYC, but good she ignored that advice. People in NY are usually fun and interesting to talk to, if they are receptive, some are not. And I suppose you need to use your intuition as to who it might not be a good idea to talk to. I don't talk to strangers much on a day to day basis, but when I travel, I do it, but rather selectively...I like to learn about them and how they live...not that interested in talking to other tourists, but like to talk to the locals. | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/18/2009 1:26:27 PM | Yep of course I do... I'm at university! 
I talk to random people I see at the pub when I go to watch the football ("I'm psychic... I already know we're going to lose, and the game hasn't even started, and I'm not even into football. Well come on, we are playing Brazil after all..."  ).
I talk to random people at the takeaway place when I go to get a burger in the middle of the night.
I talk to random people because we both happen to play the piano. (She was handing back the key to the music room, and had some music that I like.)
I'll talk to most people randomly.  | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/18/2009 9:32:55 PM | Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life? I travel a lot, so, yes.
My father was very good at chatting with strangers. A very personable man. People liked him almost immediately. He was also a man with humility. When we told him how people liked him, people he met in passing, such as when he chatted to strangers, he was surprised. Just being himself. Not patting himself on the back for being a friendly, personable guy. I think that is one reason people took to him so easily: there was nothing put on about it: he just enjoyed chatting with people. | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/18/2009 11:57:42 PM | Anybody ever see "Planes, Trains & Automobiles"?
Neal(Steve Martin) to
Del(John Candy): " You know everything is not an anecdote. You have to discriminate. You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting. You're a miracle! Your stories have NONE of that. They're not even amusing ACCIDENTALLY! "Honey, I'd like you to meet Del Griffith, he's got some amusing anecodotes for you. Oh and here's a gun so you can blow your brains out. You'll thank me for it." I could tolerate any insurance seminar. For days I could sit there and listen to them go on and on with a big smile on my face. They'd say, "How can you stand it?" I'd say, "'Cause I've been with Del Griffith. I can take ANYTHING." You know what they'd say? They'd say, "I know what you mean. The shower curtain ring guy. Woah." It's like going on a date with a Chatty Cathy doll. I expect you have a little string on your chest, you know, that I pull out and have to snap back. Except I wouldn't pull it out and snap it back - you would. Agh! Agh! Agh! Agh! And by the way, you know, when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea - have a POINT. It makes it SO much more interesting for the listener!"
I always end up being Neal listening to Del | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/19/2009 6:18:44 AM | What can I say... I'm Irish and I've kissed the "Blarney Stone".
For those of you who haven't been there or intend to visit some day... it's situated on the roof of the castle... It's NOT, I repeat NOT a big stone on the roof which I had thought or the stones leading from the steps (which I kissed to my horror and others' amusement), but you make your way to a safety grid which is about 20000 ft up from the ground (I'm Irish and I've kissed the "Blarney Stone"), lie on your back, holding onto the grid and kiss the stone in the centre - the first words you utter when the deed is done is "oh, my bleeding back"
Ah, sure when in Rome! | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/19/2009 8:43:14 AM | I think that's probably a geographic/cultural thing. Where I live there are no 'strangers'.
BTW 'Best Kept Secret' the picture with the rooster, would that be on Westgate Dr by any chance? I miss G-Vegas. | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/19/2009 10:03:24 AM | I love chatting with strangers! The ones I have the hardest time with, though, are men I could be attracted to. Figures.
I do love to give sincere compliments to strangers. | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/19/2009 10:39:16 AM | Sometimes I don't mind if someone strikes up a conversation with me. But only rarely do I begin the conversation. I'm too much inside my own head most of the time. I'm beginning to realize that I am very much a loner in this world. I can, and do, spend two to three, or more days at a time speaking to no one...unless you count my cat.
I think I'm becoming a hermit. | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/19/2009 12:42:43 PM | | Yes, I will talk to anyone, love to chat while waiting in lines, on the elevator--heck I talk to myself on the elevator. And Lord help my poor cats, ol. My brother is from Atlanta and when he is home and we go off, he just thinks I am so crazy to be talking to everybody--he says people do not do that in the big city! | |
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| Do you enjoy chatting with strangers in real life?
Posted: 11/19/2009 3:48:46 PM | Yes. How about with a horse underneath you?
As a fully-fledged contrarian, I love riding my horse in the city of Toronto. A great many complain about how cold and unfriendly Torontonians are. Not in this case (or many others, I've got to admit). I've ridden along the valley networks, or even through upscale neighbourhoods, and have people jog along beside me telling me their whole life's story...all while taking their pulse and respiration rate. A fairly conventional opening is "...I rode a horse once and then he heaved me off and then kicked me...". Mmm, hmm, I reply knowingly.
So far the riding in the city gambit hasn't worked to attract women but a guy's gotta hope so I'll keep doing it when I can! | |
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