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View Poll Results: Do you share your food with strangers?
Yes, if I am flirting 4 12.12%
Yes 11 33.33%
No 7 21.21%
What the heck? 11 33.33%
Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-26-2012, 10:58 AM
 
Location: EPWV
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Call me any name,but I don't like when people offer the homeless food that they ate off or was part of their meal(someone said they gave french fries to a hungry kid).
I just buy them their own meal,no one wants food someone breathed on.

No to the op,you said you walk past and ask them how their meal was?
As in a stranger,or someone you know?
If its a stranger,that sounds creepy on your part.
If someone did that to me,I would ask them if they wanted some in a sarcastic way.
No, probably not but think it's much more preferable than dumpster diving for food
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Old 03-26-2012, 11:04 AM
 
Location: New Albany, IN
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Default Don't understand why people offer food.

I don't recall that a stranger has ever offered me food, but sometimes at work a coworker, usually a woman, will offer me food or drink. That's what I don't get in social settings, that women are always offering to share their food with friends or aquaintances--I very rarely do that. I wouldn't offer food to a complete stranger, it just would never occur to me. I don't think they would be interested in what I'm eating anyway.
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Old 03-26-2012, 12:28 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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I don't recall that a stranger has ever offered me food, but sometimes at work a coworker, usually a woman, will offer me food or drink. That's what I don't get in social settings, that women are always offering to share their food with friends or aquaintances--I very rarely do that. I wouldn't offer food to a complete stranger, it just would never occur to me. I don't think they would be interested in what I'm eating anyway.
it's more of a general bonding moment when people in groups are socializing and having a good time. I only do this and get this when the person or persons are having a nice convo and moment. Rarely goes a lot further then a nice ,fun evening though there have been times there was more.
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Old 03-26-2012, 12:31 PM
 
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I've already told my daughter that, under no circumstances, is she to accept an opened beverage from a stranger, or even leave her drink unattended in a strange place. That's how date rape occurs. It happened to the daughter of a good friend of ours and she nearly died.
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Old 03-26-2012, 12:37 PM
 
Location: Tri-State Area
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I've already told my daughter that, under no circumstances, is she to accept an opened beverage from a stranger, or even leave her drink unattended in a strange place. That's how date rape occurs. It happened to the daughter of a good friend of ours and she nearly died.
Order a bottled beer, make them open it in front of you, keep your hand on that bottle at all times - end of story.
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Old 03-26-2012, 12:39 PM
 
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Order a bottled beer, make them open it in front of you, keep your hand on that bottle at all times - end of story.
Absolutely. And if it's a mixed drink, watch the bartender make it, rather than have the date ferry it from the bar to the table. I simply cannot fathom that people actually do this, but they do. It's a scary thing to be sending my beautiful daughter out into a world where people like this exist.
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Old 03-26-2012, 12:40 PM
 
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Hmmm, once a guy begging, "Will Work for Food" sign...I offered him my lunch, he turned it down, and acted like I was insulting him. No Pimento Cheese Sandwich for him! On homemade bread, no less, with a brownie.
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Old 03-26-2012, 12:44 PM
 
Location: Tri-State Area
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Hmmm, once a guy begging, "Will Work for Food" sign...I offered him my lunch, he turned it down, and acted like I was insulting him. No Pimento Cheese Sandwich for him! On homemade bread, no less, with a brownie.
Don't need all the excess calories from the sandwich, can I have your brownie?
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Old 03-26-2012, 07:12 PM
 
Location: Colorado
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Hmmm, once a guy begging, "Will Work for Food" sign...I offered him my lunch, he turned it down, and acted like I was insulting him. No Pimento Cheese Sandwich for him! On homemade bread, no less, with a brownie.
When my husband was going in to get some food from a fast food place he saw a guy going through the garbage can outside and he asked if he
could get a burger for him too. The guy was very specific about what he wanted and didn't want on that burger. He didn't just say "yes".......
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Old 03-26-2012, 07:16 PM
 
Location: U.S.A.
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No way, I hate strangers and their germs.
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