It really depends where the person is from I think. I met a cute Ukrainian girl at my train station last week, she accidentally bought the wrong ticket and asked me a question. We then spent the next 45 minutes talking and sitting next to each other, traded information and the hugged when we hard to go our ways... It's nice to meet people.
Yes. We're just trying to coordinate schedules because we both work weird times. She's only her til the end of the summer so it's kind of crunch time here..
What do you mean? It strikes my eyes when I read it. I saw that word "hard" the moment I read it, and my first thought was "this is some freudian slip irony shit". Then saw the comment and giggled as someone is thinking just like me.
...and where you live. People in different areas have different levels of acceptance when it comes to random public talking. It is much more acceptable where I'm at now, and it took me a bit to get used to the random person behind me in line just blurting something out loud and expecting me to be paying attention.
I'm from New York, it's totally a mixed bag. People will be total dick heads when something is a problem in the slightest to them, but then there's a sense of bonding at certain points. Like, there was a small fire in a building down the road from where I work in the City, and at least 100 people were just standing by, watching and talking with each other as if watching the fire department work is just another form of entertainment.
Based on what I've heard from tourists and travelers, people from the US generally are more open to striking up a conversation than a lot of other places. And people from the south are more likely than northerners.
Size of an area matters a lot as well. The smallest towns I've lived in or near were pretty much gossip mills no matter where they were located. Unfamiliar faces got chatted up pretty quick.
Long distance train travel is great for this. I'm an insomniac, so overnight on a train would be hell, but I just head to the dining car with a deck of cards. It only takes a few hands of solitaire before you're playing poker or rummy with some stranger. I've met some great people that way. No regrets.
Ukrainian girls. The only female strangers that have ever talked to me like we were best pals have been Ukrainian girls. How do I know? Because we became good friends afterwards. Is Ukraine like European Canada?
Funny thing is that she was all smiley, but during out conversation she mentioned how Russians and Ukrainians don't smile very much unless they're actually happy. (Good sign?)
She ask that they'd rather not use those facial muscles for no reason haha.
Legit, 100% happened, she's almost 19 and is doing an exchange program thing in my town like a mile from my house, it was like the Twilight Zone... hopefully hanging out with her Thursday. Fingers crossed for me, Reddit.
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u/Crown4King Jul 13 '15
It really depends where the person is from I think. I met a cute Ukrainian girl at my train station last week, she accidentally bought the wrong ticket and asked me a question. We then spent the next 45 minutes talking and sitting next to each other, traded information and the hugged when we hard to go our ways... It's nice to meet people.