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Old people love to start conversations with me, or my toddler, but otherwise people generally don't talk to strangers unless asking for help/directions/the time etc. While sober anyway, drunk is a different story. But I've experienced a few times a stranger starting a conversation with me on the train so its not completely unheard of, and people love to chat when they come into the shop I work in.
Same for me. I often have people sriking up conversations on the train to me.
Last week a lady working in the chemist spilled her guts to me when I was just trying to buy nurofen. Got her whole work history and issues.... People often do that to me, lol
Old people often have a chat with me, and I do say good morning if I pass them on the street still .
Same for me. I often have people sriking up conversations on the train to me.
Last week a lady working in the chemist spilled her guts to me when I was just trying to buy nurofen. Got her whole work history and issues.... People often do that to me, lol
Old people often have a chat with me, and I do say good morning if I pass them on the street still .
Yeah I think my non-judgemental demeanour makes people open up to me too...
I think new Yorkers easily chat each other up. Almost every other day girls come up to me to compliment my outfit, or ask me where I got my shoes etc.
It's easy here as most people in New York are from somewhere else, so you start with "where are you from" and then the conversation continues.
Same for me. I often have people sriking up conversations on the train to me.
Last week a lady working in the chemist spilled her guts to me when I was just trying to buy nurofen. Got her whole work history and issues.... People often do that to me, lol
Old people often have a chat with me, and I do say good morning if I pass them on the street still .
I think new Yorkers easily chat each other up. Almost every other day girls come up to me to compliment my outfit, or ask me where I got my shoes etc.
It's easy here as most people in New York are from somewhere else, so you start with "where are you from" and then the conversation continues.
People in Sweden are very very reserved. I use public transportation every day and I can't recall any stranger starting a conversation with me (I haven't done that either). And that being said, I travel with public transportation for 4 hours every day! I have had some guys talking to me and asking me to go out with them but they wasn't even swedish guys.
I'm in New York--much more likely on the bus than on the subway, unless something happens. Today one guy yelled at another - Yo, you bumped into me WTF, and the other said - no that was you pen****. And it went on for a few minutes.
Everyone turned to each other rolling their eyes, shaking their heads and talking about what idiots the guys were.
I find that the bus can be relatively friendly. If you take it at a regular time, you tend to see the same people, so much more likely to strike up conversations for no reason. (Although I've definitely had conversations on the subway for no real reason also, but much less commonly.)
How friendly people tend to be on the street can vary by neighborhood. Manhattan is just too crowded for that, but around me, there is one predominately Irish neighborhood, and is the friendliest that I've encountered here.
In Newfoundland, it is impossible to get people to stop talking to you. Everybody talks to everybody all the time. If you go out of the house, you have to plan for at least an hour of idle chitchat with complete strangers before you can get back home again. Lines move very slowly in the bank or post office as customers chat with the service staff, but that's OK, everybody standing in line are talking to each other, too. You have to dial a phone very carefully, because if you get a wrong number, you'll have to chat that that stranger for a half hour about who it was you were trying to call, and whether they know them or not and where they're from, and who else they know from there.
You can travel there as a tourist, and never pay for a night in a hotel, just chat with somebody in the supermarket, and they'll invite you home for supper, and find a bed for you.
In Newfoundland, it is impossible to get people to stop talking to you. Everybody talks to everybody all the time. If you go out of the house, you have to plan for at least an hour of idle chitchat with complete strangers before you can get back home again. Lines move very slowly in the bank or post office as customers chat with the service staff, but that's OK, everybody standing in line are talking to each other, too. You have to dial a phone very carefully, because if you get a wrong number, you'll have to chat that that stranger for a half hour about who it was you were trying to call, and whether they know them or not and where they're from, and who else they know from there.
You can travel there as a tourist, and never pay for a night in a hotel, just chat with somebody in the supermarket, and they'll invite you home for supper, and find a bed for you.
Wow really, sounds a bit like some more developing nations. It's good to see that old world hospitality still exists there.
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