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I am not an extrovert, but I do enjoy good conversations. However, I rarely enjoy my conversations with strangers. Maybe it is a selection bias, but strangers

I am not an extrovert, but I do enjoy good conversations. However, I rarely enjoy my conversations with strangers. Maybe it is a selection bias, but strangers who try to talk to me are almost always painful to talk to. They say things that make no sense, and leave me having to smile and nod at nonsense. I don't think I have ever had an interesting or engaging conversation with a stranger.

gffrd 3y ago
> I don't think I have ever had an interesting or engaging conversation with a stranger How have you ever met a person? Everyone was a stranger to you at some point.
- cortesoft 3y ago
  I was using stranger to mean someone who I meet on the street with no context, not someone I am introduced to.
bigkahuna1986 3y ago
This hits home here. If one of those talkative people is driving the conversation, it almost always leads to politics or some other subject where I eventually just have to say "Gotta go, bye!" and basically run out the door.
exclusiv 3y ago
I had a guy overhear me talking about when I ate iguana in Curacao and then ranted to me and my group about how it wasn't right and that they are endangered. And I'm like that's not true at all but anyway, what do you eat buddy? He's like "I only eat chicken" like he's some sort of meat purist in that statement. Some randos on the plane can be good convo. Met some interesting and nice people on the craps tables, conferences, festivals, fellow or opposing fans at sports events. When I travel, I usually end up collecting strangers as part of the experience. But yeah out and about they're often sketchy. If they're painful to me, I'll lean into it and try to figure out how they got there and you can often pull some interesting or ridiculous stories (ex: alien encounters)
popularonion 3y ago
> Maybe it is a selection bias, but strangers who try to talk to me are almost always painful to talk to. They say things that make no sense, and leave me having to smile and nod at nonsense. You put my experience into words exactly. Anyway, I don't have kids, I don't watch sports, I don't go to parties or do drugs, I watch maybe 2 movies a year, and I don't like talking about religion or politics. So 99% of people would consider me impossible to talk to.

gffrd 3y ago

> I don't think I have ever had an interesting or engaging conversation with a stranger How have you ever met a person? Everyone was a stranger to you at some point.

cortesoft 3y ago
I was using stranger to mean someone who I meet on the street with no context, not someone I am introduced to.

bigkahuna1986 3y ago

This hits home here. If one of those talkative people is driving the conversation, it almost always leads to politics or some other subject where I eventually just have to say "Gotta go, bye!" and basically run out the door.

exclusiv 3y ago

I had a guy overhear me talking about when I ate iguana in Curacao and then ranted to me and my group about how it wasn't right and that they are endangered. And I'm like that's not true at all but anyway, what do you eat buddy? He's like "I only eat chicken" like he's some sort of meat purist in that statement. Some randos on the plane can be good convo. Met some interesting and nice people on the craps tables, conferences, festivals, fellow or opposing fans at sports events. When I travel, I usually end up collecting strangers as part of the experience. But yeah out and about they're often sketchy. If they're painful to me, I'll lean into it and try to figure out how they got there and you can often pull some interesting or ridiculous stories (ex: alien encounters)

popularonion 3y ago

> Maybe it is a selection bias, but strangers who try to talk to me are almost always painful to talk to. They say things that make no sense, and leave me having to smile and nod at nonsense. You put my experience into words exactly. Anyway, I don't have kids, I don't watch sports, I don't go to parties or do drugs, I watch maybe 2 movies a year, and I don't like talking about religion or politics. So 99% of people would consider me impossible to talk to.