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Happy To Chat

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Rosehip Nov 2019 7:51pm, 8 Nov 2019 14148 posts	0 Rosehip talking to strangers you don't expect to ever see again is much less hard than talking to people that you are introduced to and may be expected to "befriend" - well for me anyway. I can talk to random people in cafes or on buses the other end of the country, put me in a room full of friends of friends/family/acquaintances and I'm useless.
Rosehip Nov 2019 7:51pm, 8 Nov 2019 14149 posts	0 Rosehip except for Fetchies - it's easy to chat to Fetchies
swittle Nov 2019 8:21pm, 8 Nov 2019 58285 posts	0 swittle Liverpool's world famous for folk spontaneously striking up conversations. On the beach today, I stopped near a man taking photos of the sea & sunset. He started up at once about the lack of decent sunsets. I spotted his hearing aids but he gently reminded me that he lip read. Lost track of the number of people who've asked me why I'm not running!
Night-owl Nov 2019 9:35pm, 8 Nov 2019 33202 posts	0 Night-owl I'm so much like Rosehip
Surrey Phil Nov 2019 11:14pm, 8 Nov 2019 3293 posts	0 Surrey Phil I usually find myself (and I'm sure others do too) chatting to strangers at races. Either on the walk-in, during pre-race time and, after a few miles, striking up a conversation with someone running at your pace.
WA Nov 2019 11:51pm, 8 Nov 2019 6314 posts	0 WA Yes I do that. That's normal though. I think it's the sitting on a bench that makes me recoil. It also makes me think of that drama warm up where you sit on a bench and ad lib a character.

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