I was on a bus and this man came up to me and started telling me about his health problems. I nodded and smiled and said that's nice. What would you have done?
I was on a bus
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Probably about the same thing you did. People are weird, people who come up to you and start telling you random shit are even weirder. Try not to provoke them or you could find yourself getting bitten by a homeless man, and you have no idea what could be festering in his mouth.
I ride the bus often. If someone engages me in conversation i tend to jump in and try to talk to them. Nothing wrong with it. You might hear an interesting tell. I made a nice "friend" by talking to this guy on the bus about games. I don't get why there is a stigma to talking to people you don't now in public. I hear in Germany you can sit at the same table as someone you don't now in a restaurant and talk to them. Second hand information so if anyone can verify woud be nice.
Welcome to the interesting world of public transit. There are pamphlets on how to avoid being stabbed or eaten next to the bagels and coffee...
I was coming out of a Little Caesars recently and this young couple walked up to me. They asked me if I would be willing to give them a ride to wal-mart. Since it was raining pretty hard and wal-mart was pretty close by I decided to get myself some karma points and agree to drive them.
In the four minute car ride between the pizza place and wal-mart, I learned the following details.
They were racist against Mexicans.
They were idiots
They lost their child to social services
They currently had no shampoo or toilet paper
The man worked at KFC while the woman was recently fired from McDonalds for "bogus claims"
The "bogus claims" turned out to be she was stealing food and supplies
They hated the way my car smelt
They thought my music choices made me a hippie (I was listening to the Dr. Horrible soundtrack)
They asked me if I embraced Jesus
They tried to convince me to embrace Jesus after I said No.
That is WAY more conversation than what should come up in a 4 minute car ride. The worst part is that these weren't old folks who were set in their ways of their generation...these people were like 25.
So yes OP, I know how awkward it can be when strangers insist on telling you stuff...
In the four minute car ride between the pizza place and wal-mart, I learned the following details.
They were racist against Mexicans.
They were idiots
They lost their child to social services
They currently had no shampoo or toilet paper
The man worked at KFC while the woman was recently fired from McDonalds for "bogus claims"
The "bogus claims" turned out to be she was stealing food and supplies
They hated the way my car smelt
They thought my music choices made me a hippie (I was listening to the Dr. Horrible soundtrack)
They asked me if I embraced Jesus
They tried to convince me to embrace Jesus after I said No.
That is WAY more conversation than what should come up in a 4 minute car ride. The worst part is that these weren't old folks who were set in their ways of their generation...these people were like 25.
So yes OP, I know how awkward it can be when strangers insist on telling you stuff...
Don't forget the ones detailing the fine intricacies of not getting cancer from the, oh, say, several million sources possible per buss ride, Mookie.Mookie_Magnus said:
OT: "Feel like not talking to me? Thanks."
Riding the bus is always an interesting experience, there is no shortage of strange and unusual people. I've found the best way to avoid said people is to sit all by yourself and look really pissed off, no one ever talks to me., and if they do I just nod politely while I turn my music up.
I'm on a bus
I'm on a bus
everyone look at me cause I'm riding on a bus
I'm on a bus
I'm on a bus
Everyone take a good hard look cause I'm riding on a bus
( ohh yeah...)
Hey life if you could see me now, stair'in out the window count'in cows..
OT: listened to my iPod and stare right through them.
I'm on a bus
everyone look at me cause I'm riding on a bus
I'm on a bus
I'm on a bus
Everyone take a good hard look cause I'm riding on a bus
( ohh yeah...)
Hey life if you could see me now, stair'in out the window count'in cows..
OT: listened to my iPod and stare right through them.
Whenever I rode public transportation I always had headphones with me, back to the days when I used a walkman, so nobody ever really tried to talk to me. Sometimes when I'm at a bar on a weekday night I'll have someone strike up a conversation with me, and in most cases it's an old man who just wants someone to talk to, so I oblige. It does get kind of annoying when I go out to bars in hopes of meeting a woman, but in most cases the two groups are rarely found in the same bar. It is a bit of a dangerous slope though because once you indulge them they seem to think you want to know everything about them and more often than not the conversation devolves into how gays/Mexicans/Jews/blacks/atheists, etc. are ruining the country. C'est la vie!
I'm with you, hotsauceman. I think it's entirely backwards that we're thinking that it's madness to talk to someone on a bus that you don't know. What's weird is being surrounded by people and not interacting with them.hotsauceman said:
I'll talk to people on a bus if that's what they want. Other than one mentally-disabled fella missing his stop because he got so enthused by telling me about what's changed in WWF/WWE since I stopped watching wrestling, it's been smooth sailing.
