@mintedrose
Close to the opposite for me. I meet many new people ice skating on Sundays(Family Day). Both genders and all ages from 8 years old on up. I really do not go many places, other than the hospital or doctors appointments, where I meet new people.
We have to be around new people for a long enough time to actually carry on a conversation, and other places I go? They are usually the In and Out thing.
It is usually me that starts with a "hello", and depending on the situation, I start a conversation. This is only when it is at a place other than an In and Out, thus most times, long enough to converse for a few minutes or longer.
Yesterday skating I met a younger skater, found out he is 52. I said hello to him and commented on his hockey Jersey which was the Boston Bruins. The first thing he said was, "are you John"? I said yes.
From there I found out some of the hockey players I know, told him to look me up at the rink. They had told him to have me look at his skating style and see what he was doing wrong, as a hockey player skates. He is still playing hockey.
That quickly went to him wanting to know about me and my hockey, and also what I have done to be able to skate to my ripe old age. Pretty quickly went to overall fitness and my history there.
Countless stories I could tell from my return to skating after my 14 year absence, starting it when I was 78 years old. I try to most of my conversing before or after the skating session is over. Otherwise I do not get my level or physical workout as intended.
That is pretty much my life in connection to in person conversations, with strangers, and even the skating friends I see there on my Wednesday skating sessions.
My direct family consists of my 1 remaining older sister. I talk with her regularly and some of it is about health issues(she and BIL are 88), but most is about life and our world in general.
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hckynut(john)