Has anyone ever had a surprising conversation with a stranger?
This morning, a random guy I don't know started talking to me. It was one of those things where we were both coming from the same place (the 4th floor of the dorm) and heading down to campus. So it's not like we could avoid walking together. To my surprise, he started up a conversation.
First about the weather, you know, then to where we're from. And finally, we discovered that we had mutual acquaintances. He is from the same town as some old friends of my family, and was on the same sports teams as their sons and their dad was his baseball coach. It was strange to find such a connection.
Anyone else have an experience like that?
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
I've had a few conversations with strange men in my day, though they seldom revolved around common acquaintances.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Yup...I have. Not gonna tell you.
*giggles*
But yah, my job as a security officer gets me into contact with lots and lots of strangers. And I've had some wacky and cool conversations with people. Usually they are with people who work in the building I'm guarding, and eventually we get to be buddies. I became friends with a gang of 40 year old divorced white women up on 5th floor...I even got them to come out to my scary goth club. Some even liked it and came back to hang out!
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
About 5 years ago, before I remarried, the kids and I lived in a small apartment. The bug guy (you know, the guy who sprays) used to strike up amazingly long conversations with me while he sprayed our apartment. And he wasn't even part of the management at the complex; he was from a company. Over the course of about a year and a half I learned all kinds of things about him, down to the ages of his kids and what he liked to do in his spare time.
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