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The longest and most random conversation you every had with a complete stranger?
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:17 am
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:17 am
Just had mine. Brought my two golden retrievers to my local dog park and on other side of fence was older guy in his 70's and little dog. The conversation started with the weather is nice to he is a retired police officer from NY city and a retired officer from Vietnam. Forty five mins later my dogs looking at me like WTF we leaving or what? Didn’t even get his name but we shared former military stories, my dad ex army Vietnam vet, wtf we doing in Ukraine, and his son graduating from the university I attended. We even had these kids today social media conversation( get off my lawn stuff) 
Random but didn't expect this at a place attend about four times a week. Great conversation even while trying to figure out his political beliefs to ending on thanks for the convo to have a great day. I didn't even get a name. Anybody can top this? Oh and TLDNR
Random but didn't expect this at a place attend about four times a week. Great conversation even while trying to figure out his political beliefs to ending on thanks for the convo to have a great day. I didn't even get a name. Anybody can top this? Oh and TLDNR
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Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:21 am to FLBooGoTigs1
Pre-kids my wife and I would regularly pick up strays on nights out. A lady whose husband cheated and was struggling, an old guy who ran a hold out mechanic's shop in the middle of Midtown Atlanta, lots of immigrants who open up about their life in their old country.
I genuinely loved that stuff. You have to be careful to shake off the crazies early on, but you can learn a lot and be an encouragement/respite to someone who is lonely for whatever reason.
I genuinely loved that stuff. You have to be careful to shake off the crazies early on, but you can learn a lot and be an encouragement/respite to someone who is lonely for whatever reason.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:27 am to FLBooGoTigs1
Got delayed on a flight out of Maui. Started talking to a very old guy who I had a feeling was far wealthier than he dressed. You learn to pick up cues. Turned out to be a Pole who was forced into the Wehrmacht in WWII, drove a tank at the Battle of the Bulge until it ran out of fuel without ever firing the gun, then hid in the woods until he found some Americans to surrender to.
Immigrated here post-war, got drafted into Korea when they found out he could drive a tank, went there and fought for the duration, then on the way back to CONUS, decided Hawaii was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Settled there, and owned all the units for a couple of major restaurant franchises on the islands.
Immigrated here post-war, got drafted into Korea when they found out he could drive a tank, went there and fought for the duration, then on the way back to CONUS, decided Hawaii was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Settled there, and owned all the units for a couple of major restaurant franchises on the islands.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:28 am to Pettifogger
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my wife and I would regularly pick up strays on nights out
I've had some of the most fulfilling and heartwarming convos inviting older folks eating alone to join us. You really never know what people are going through or how long it's been since they had real human connection.
So far only one weirdo that insisted we watch 10 min long videos of his awful clarinet playing
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:33 am to Slagathor
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insisted we watch 10 min long videos of his awful clarinet playing
Insert that’s my fetish gif
Dammit I didn’t expect to be here today but had to post this. I am going to Home Depot now.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:38 am to FLBooGoTigs1
yesterday i sat next to a lady on the plane that starts up crunch fitness gyms on her way to a corporate training in Austin. we talked for an hour and a half without a break about which gyms are shams, which ones succeed and fail, how they make money off of $10 memberships, etc.
was actually really interesting.
never even asked each other's names and barely even looked at each other the whole time.
was actually really interesting.
never even asked each other's names and barely even looked at each other the whole time.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:38 am to FLBooGoTigs1
Too many times to mention. For some reason I tend to attract weird people if I'm out and about. I'm kind of leery about talking to people sometimes because there's always a point in the conversation where it goes off the rails and the stranger starts talking to me about some crazy shite. Even when I'm with the wife, the weirdos find me. She thinks it's funny. It's been like this since I was a teenager.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:44 am to FLBooGoTigs1
vendor technician discussing religion and religious stuff, that I did not ask for or initiate. goes on for 15 mins while I am working, and i get frustrated and make the comment - man this makes me wish I had a drink.
he replies - drinking is not the answer.
my coworker looks up from the other side of the counter and says, I am southern Baptist - pretty sure it is for me.
tech got embarrassed because people laughed, and went off somewhere else to work.
he replies - drinking is not the answer.
my coworker looks up from the other side of the counter and says, I am southern Baptist - pretty sure it is for me.
tech got embarrassed because people laughed, and went off somewhere else to work.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:52 am to FLBooGoTigs1
Back in the early 90s, when I was in radio, I was working the midnight shift when some woman called, asking if there was a suicide hotline she could call. I checked the phone book and found nothing.
I told her if she just needed to talk to someone, she could talk to me. So, for about three hours, she talked to me.
Turns out her husband and son were killed in a car accident. While she was hospitalized, she was raped by a male nurse. The trial was coming up, she would have to testify, and she just couldn't deal with it all.
Never saw her in person.
Before we ended our conversation, she thanked me for keeping her from "doing something really stupid", as she put it.
I can always go back to this to reassure myself I'm not a COMPLETE a-hole.
I told her if she just needed to talk to someone, she could talk to me. So, for about three hours, she talked to me.
Turns out her husband and son were killed in a car accident. While she was hospitalized, she was raped by a male nurse. The trial was coming up, she would have to testify, and she just couldn't deal with it all.
Never saw her in person.
Before we ended our conversation, she thanked me for keeping her from "doing something really stupid", as she put it.
I can always go back to this to reassure myself I'm not a COMPLETE a-hole.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:54 am to FLBooGoTigs1
I used to workout my nostrils with Mexican Muscle Dust. The amount of groundbreaking-yet-pointless conversations i’ve held with complete strangers is staggering.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:56 am to FLBooGoTigs1
I strike up conversations with strangers fairly regularly.
Drives my kids crazy.
Drives my kids crazy.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:58 am to Honest Tune
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I used to workout my nostrils with Mexican Muscle Dust. The amount of groundbreaking-yet-pointless conversations i’ve held with complete strangers is staggering.
Contextually, I think Mexican Muscle Dust means cocaine but I can't be sure. I also believe it may involve luchador wrestlers.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:00 pm to Saint Alfonzo
Kinky Friedman used to call it "Peruvian Marching Powder"
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:06 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
When I did some data entry work for the RNC in college I spent most of that summer in DC. I went to a random pub in the Georgetown area on one of my off days and there was one open seat. I really had just planned to get one beer to get off my feet for a bit and then go walk around some more. I ordered a Guinness and the fellow next to me seemed surprised/pleased. Come to find out he was actually politician from Ireland, he worked for some kind of health organization. Can't remember exactly what his title was but he was kind of like RFKJ in that he was going on about the stuff Americans were putting in food and how certain things were banned in Ireland but not here, he was in DC to speak at some convention regarding it. The NFL preseason was on and the Skins were on TV so he was asking about football, we talked about our families and when I told him I was from Louisiana he had been to NOLA before and it was one of his favorite cities to visit. He bought us another round and so I felt obligated to reciprocate after.
What was supposed to be a quick 15-20 minute break from walking turned into almost 2 hours shooting the shite at the bar with this politician stranger from Ireland. We exchanged business cards and out of curiosity I looked him up online and he was legit, had a decently sized wikipedia page and everything.
What was supposed to be a quick 15-20 minute break from walking turned into almost 2 hours shooting the shite at the bar with this politician stranger from Ireland. We exchanged business cards and out of curiosity I looked him up online and he was legit, had a decently sized wikipedia page and everything.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:17 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
A homeless Vietnam vet on a subway in NYC gave me a 30 minute sales pitch about how to find the best pussy in like 6 different Asian countries.
A mechanic that came to fix my oven stayed for almost 2 hours talking about how aliens walk amongst us and use invisible machines to suck out our life force and reroute it to their home planets to power large machinery.
A mechanic that came to fix my oven stayed for almost 2 hours talking about how aliens walk amongst us and use invisible machines to suck out our life force and reroute it to their home planets to power large machinery.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:22 pm to RedmanChew
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A homeless Vietnam vet on a subway in NYC gave me a 30 minute sales pitch about how to find the best pussy in like 6 different Asian countries.
A mechanic that came to fix my oven stayed for almost 2 hours talking about how aliens walk amongst us and use invisible machines to suck out our life force and reroute it to their home planets to power large machinery.
Honestly, both of these just sound like valuable knowledge to have. Did the oven guy give you a pair of sunglasses by chance?
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:26 pm to RedmanChew
Got delayed on a flight from Houston to Atlanta. I was sitting there when a young man 15-18 who you could tell was on the spectrum sat down next to me. He was getting frustrated why the flight was delayed so I just struck up a conversation with him about baseball as he had on an Astros jersey. We probably talked for 45 minutes about baseball, football, Toy Story movies whatever just to pass the time. I think his older parents were relieved because he was starting to have to a come apart waiting on the plane. So it made the time pass by and he was into Disney movies so I having watched more than my fair share due to my young kids I was able to keep him calm and in a generally happy mood.
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:26 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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Did the oven guy give you a pair of sunglasses by chance?
no but I assumed he must’ve watched that movie while on shrooms or something and mistakenly thought it was a documentary.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:29 pm to Saint Alfonzo
any time a trucker stops at my desk
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:38 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
I find that retired people will absolutely talk your head off. My opinion is it's because they no longer have coworkers to bullshite with anymore, so they basically will continue out a conversation that normally wouldn't take that long to unload a week's worth of random conversation topics that built up to vomit onto the next able bodie that takes a moment to listen to them. I guess old people get lonely. Spend more time with your parents and grandparents, even if it's annoying sometimes.
Then you brought this story to social media. Side topic question: Is TD considered social media?
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We even had these kids today social media conversation( get off my lawn stuff)
Then you brought this story to social media. Side topic question: Is TD considered social media?
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 12:42 pm
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