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[occasionalrain]

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.

[missy1]

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..

[nana59]

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@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..

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

[occasionalrain]

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.

[GCR18]

Sometimes.

[hckynut]

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@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.

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  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)

[proudlyfromNJ]

No

[Lucky Charm]

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

(from one stranger to another...lol)

[sunshine45]

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.

[Moonchilde]

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.