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Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

occasionalrain — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:39:42 GMT

I do.

I learn all sorts of interesting things and sometimes surprising things. Occasionally, they confide things they can't tell their friends and family, sometimes thank me for listening.

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

missy1 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:46:57 GMT

Sometimes. My crazy bucket list was to pick up a stranger (I know . I know...), and give them a ride. This senior disabled lady begged me to take her to her motel. She was interesting. She ordered me around to where I should put her groceries. She told me her life story, This was a few months ago at Walmart.. That is checked off my list. I don't encourage it. I could tell she needed help. She had a walker, and rode those carts..

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

nana59 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:53:41 GMT

@missy1 wrote:
Sometimes. My crazy bucket list was to pick up a stranger (I know . I know...), and give them a ride. This senior disabled lady begged me to take her to her motel. She was interesting. She ordered me around to where I should put her groceries. She told me her life story, This was a few months ago at Walmart.. That is checked off my list. I don't encourage it. I could tell she needed help. She had a walker, and rode those carts..

WOW!! What else is on your crazy bucket list........

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

occasionalrain — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:54:14 GMT

Missy1 the risk taker. Those of us who watch Snap etc. imagine a scenario where this is a ploy and big scary men come out of nowhere to do you mischif when you stop to let her out.

Still, there is a bit of pleasure in disobeying the don't talk to strangers rule all of us got from our parents.

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

GCR18 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:57:41 GMT

Sometimes.

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

hckynut — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:05:39 GMT

@occasionalrain wrote:
I do.
I learn all sorts of interesting things and sometimes surprising things. Occasionally, they confide things they can't tell their friends and family, sometimes thank me for listening.

With my spending days and hours I've spent in hospital lab/procedure center/diagnostic and blood transfusion waiting rooms and 6-8 hour transfusions?

I talk to anyone that appears to want to carry on a conversation. Met so many patients with many different serious health problems, and have learned a lot from many of them.

Lots of stories I could tell after my 100+ plus transfusions and infusions in those conversations. I just like talking to people if they are up to talking. At hospital waiting areas many of them are cut short when my name or the other person's is called.

Heck, I even give them a chance to say something in between my taking breaths.

hckynut(john)

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

proudlyfromNJ — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:07:29 GMT

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

Lucky Charm — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:11:03 GMT

@hckynut--step away from the computer and root for the Broad Street Bullies, please.

(from one stranger to another...lol)

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

sunshine45 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:20:03 GMT

sometimes......it depends on how i feel, where i am, and how the "vibes" are.

i do it sometimes on an airplane, at a bar, in a doctors office, at an event or concert before it starts, at a party where i dont know many people.

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

Moonchilde — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:24:39 GMT

I don't think I "like talking to strangers" in general, but I do from time to time, usually standing in line for something or otherwise waiting for something. I'm fine as long as the conversations don't get too long or too extensive. I don't want to hear a person's life story or get caught up in it, but I can enjoy a few minutes of miscellaneous shared-situation discussion, and have, and will in future I'm sure.

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

MickD — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:25:55 GMT

Sure!

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

Noel7 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:31:49 GMT

Yes, often. In line at stores, people walking their dogs, in waiting rooms. I'm not usually the one who starts a conversation, but sometimes.

I stood in front of the house not long ago talking to a woman with the most incredible large dog I've ever see. She works with an animal rescue group I support. I'd never seen her before that day.

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

circles — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:34:35 GMT

All my working life was with the public...banking...market...clothing..so i had to talk to strangers...and i got so i enjoyed it...

It is not unlike me to strike up a conversation in the aisles while i am grocery shopping...or the doctors office...I am very friendly...as was my mom....and sister...

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

hckynut — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:38:27 GMT

@Lucky Charm wrote:
@hckynut--step away from the computer and root for the Broad Street Bullies, please.

(from one stranger to another...lol)

I'm watching as I type hoping the Flyers beat that Big O and his team. My guys got beat last night so hoping Flyers can show the Caps the door. No longer strangers

GOOOO FLYERS!

hckynut(john)

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

Goldengate8361 — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:13:49 GMT

Yes. I'm a Southerner, afterall.

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Lila Belle — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:22:23 GMT

I've had at times more honest and meaningful conversations with complete strangers than with people I know.

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september — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:24:31 GMT

I do. Sometimes, people seem surprised when I talk to them, but then they start responding....and seem happy to talk.

One of the hardest times for me was when I lived outside the US, in a country where there were three official languages, as well as many other unofficial ones. No one talked to each other!

Once I came back to this country, I became very chatty.

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Texasmouse — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:24:58 GMT

I ride the bus to work so there are many "regulars" on my route who started out as strangers and became friends.

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VanSleepy — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:27:14 GMT

That should have been on the "I'm So Old..." thread - I'm so old that I talk to strangers in the checkout line. (I do it, too. I'm not mocking lol)

Re: Do You Like To Talk To Strangers?

DiAnne — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:39:35 GMT

I always do. Makes the time go much faster if you are waiting for something.