General Chat

I haven't got a tent Merlin :-D

Island, :-D are you sure you did,nt mean the Ruff RAFF ? :-D :-D :-D ;-)

I speak to strangers every day as part of my work-I'm a shop assistant. Many start off as strangers and end up as quite well-known acquaintances.
It is amazing the details that people will share with you-but I do draw the line at medical ailments!!

Margot.

Are we totalling this up ? No ..it's not that type of thread !!!!!

I've spoken to 3 complete strangers today , one gent walking his dau dog, the other two ladies whilst sat on a bench in neighbouring town.

It's a release to some peeps when you start to chat briefly, then you get their life history ,

One elderly lady was waiting for her niece to pick her up, and she hadn't noticed her niece waving from her in the car.... there was a car parking area right in front of where the elderly lady was sitting. I did point that out to the niece when she came along nagging her aunt . cos she'd been waiting and waving ,that she could have driven there as she knew where her aunt was waiting. Aunt had a rescue dog with her, Niece just whisked the dog off and left the elderly lady to carry her shopping. ... Tongue bit !! ( mine)

The other lady was my age, her hubby was in hosp, bless her she poured her heart out to me, she needed to do it to a stranger perhaps ,and I'm a good listener.

Sandie.x

Just come home from Cheltenham surprised to find this still going strong. No problem Island, don't mind side tracks as long as there is no nastiness. I had not noticed that Lorraines post had been RR'd, can't think why it should be. Just some busy body I assume.

and why? not offensive in any way as far as I could see

that's nice Sandie - one day that neice will get old herself - let's hope people are nicer to her in old age than she was to her aunt

No it wasn't offensive. It is shameful the way some people are picked on just for being themselves.

Ann i wouldnt worry, .im not bothered past caring much more real things going on, and so busy if im not beading im seeding lol nothing strenuous got a busy weekend coming up and 300 blue red and white dancing before my eyesx

Nice to see this still here what a nice thread Ann, all this RR is getting silly mine are done most constantly as I was told by the personn doing them...but I really cant be bother as I am out at work all day. :-D

Anyway this is a lovely thread lets keep it that way.....funny enough on the bus on my way home from work ( I wish there was an emotion con so I could show you my bus face) anyway a lady got on and sat next to me and started off a convo very nice she was too I knew her face from somewhere but can remember for life of me. where from...and as I got up to get off she said bye Hayley..... :-|

Hayley oops, sounds as if you 'know' her better than you think. Maybe she used to work at your place of work. I have a terrible problem with that. When I worked I was a Training liaison officer for a large department. Everyone in the department knew me because I sent out the monthly newsletter and chased them all up for training. We are talking several hundred. I knew them when I was working and had to speak to them about training but since I retired 12 years ago, their faces have sort of merged into the back ground. I am invariable meeting people in town or at the bus stop who shout out 'hello Ann' to which I reply brightly, 'Oh, hello, how are you?' And haven't a clue who they are. Sooo embarrassing. :-) :-)

I am having a good think Ann... :-D

As a non driver I cant tell you the hours of conversations I've had over the years while standing at bus stops, train/tube platforms etc and it has been conversation mainly started by others approaching me. I have often wondered why some people have never been advised/told by their nearest and dearest to refrain from going into all the boring irrelevant detail surrounding a story when talking to people, especially strangers. Why are they SO unaware how irritating this is for the person who is put in a position to feel obliged to look interested when in reality it is draining for the listener.

I think it is fun, and enlivens the routine of day to day

................. people strike up a conversation with me, or I do with them.

I may not want to know all that they tell me ......... but maybe it helps them, just a little bit.

Common Haribo !!

Some peeps like to talk when they have some sort of suffering , it's a release for them to talk to strangers.

The 2 I spoke to today just felt the need to open up.

Sandie.x

As a chatterbox myself I have no problem whiling away the time at a bus stop etc with anyone, as an avid dog walker, i'm talking daily to strangers,even my job involves a lot of talking,listening, its just that intricate detail that some folk go into which makes you forget what the actual jist of the original story was.

I find people who do that are generally lonely and in need of someone just to chat to...

................. or cannot talk to family members or close friends about whatever it is


but a stranger is different.

I'll remember not to talk to you if I see you at the bus stop Haribo. I'm sure as I've got older and less outgoing my conversation has matched my lifestyle but its still nice to have a chat to a stranger.

Vera

Haribo, sometimes all they need to do is talk and for somebody to listen so do as I do, (remember I don't always catch what people say with my hearing aids) I look interested and nod wisely, if they look like they want an answer I have to ask them to repeat what they said, but if they have gone into detail they normally don't want an answer, just an ear. :-)