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While I thank you for this precious nugget of your worldview, please let me interject for a moment to express my loathing for the information contained therein,

While I thank you for this precious nugget of your worldview, please let me interject for a moment to express my loathing for the information contained therein, for I hate and despise it when strangers feel entitled to slide into my comfort zone uninvited. It never fails to astonish me how blind can extroverts be to the fact that there exist people who don't find it at all refreshing to have to talk to others all the time, and who find social accessibility devices like self-checkout and self-service liberating, especially since NCR rolled out a model of self-checkout POS that is not a pitiful box of UX fuckness it used to be. And no, we know how to be polite and most of the time we are. We also talk to people in social settings where this is expected of us. For example, a lengthy train journey where we cannot avoid our comfort zone from being inadvertently invaded, can sure be made better by conversation. However, I can't help but notice that most of the time, strangers talking to me, if it's not their job in their workplace, would like me to either join some cult or buy something from them. Needless to say, this makes me very wary of any such conversation. Hope you enjoy your day.

willemlaurentz 3y ago
And here we are, exchanging views on the subject, for which I am sincerely grateful you took the effort to write your take on "my precious nugget' (love the metaphor!) Perhaps it is good to add that I do try to gauge other people's willingness to talk before making any move. It gets easier to recognise and - this is something the author of the book noted to - somehow other people that are willing to talk sort of engage by themselves as if they recognise my willingness to talk. I think this happens because of non-verbal clues we are capable of picking up because of our evolution as species. And I am sure you would signal as "do not disturb" on my "stranger radar" - which I would absolutely respect diligently. Happy day to you, too. :-)

willemlaurentz 3y ago

And here we are, exchanging views on the subject, for which I am sincerely grateful you took the effort to write your take on "my precious nugget' (love the metaphor!) Perhaps it is good to add that I do try to gauge other people's willingness to talk before making any move. It gets easier to recognise and - this is something the author of the book noted to - somehow other people that are willing to talk sort of engage by themselves as if they recognise my willingness to talk. I think this happens because of non-verbal clues we are capable of picking up because of our evolution as species. And I am sure you would signal as "do not disturb" on my "stranger radar" - which I would absolutely respect diligently. Happy day to you, too. :-)