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So, I'm walking from my car to the building this morning

JulesMaximus

JulesMaximus

No Lifer
And this guy I've never seen before says good morning to me. Now, I'm a pretty social guy so I say good morning back to him and continue on toward the entrance. About 20 seconds later he turns around and starts telling me a story about how the alarm on his phone has been acting funny and he is late because of that. It is going off at different times or not going off at all. I told him that it sounds like he might need a new phone.

Anyway, it was just random and kind of an odd thing to say to a total stranger. Maybe he's not from around here though... who knows? 😕

So, ATOT. Tell me what I did wrong in this situation and why I'm a bad person. 😛
 
its called smalltalk. If you were walking into the building together the likelihood that the other person who doesn't suffer antisocialitis would have seen you before and was making a soft introduction is good. Maybe the next time you see him you can tell him a joke about cell phones!


In a few weeks you guys can actually nod and walk past without talking sometimes!
 
In a parking lot and someone comes up to you? Recipe for a good shoot, if you ask me. I say you missed your opportunity for murder and mayhem for the day.
 
You missed the subtext. Allow me to help.

JulesMaximus said:
And this guy I've never seen before checks me out. Now, I'm a pretty social guy so I scope him out in return and continue on toward the entrance. About 20 seconds later he turns around and starts telling me a story about how his penis has been acting funny and he is late because of that. It is going off at different times or not going off at all. I told him that it sounds like he might need a new penis.
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Edit: Oh shiit, I though this was a moonbogg thread, nevermind.
 
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i had an extremely weird situation happen this past weekend while i was fishing.

this lady asked me how long i have been fishing, so i asked did she mean today or in general. she said in general so i told her since i was a kid. she then started to tell me that she recently found out she is susceptible to brain aneurisms and she is only 36, and is looking for something relaxing to do but she can't fish because she is scared to put the worms on the hook. i told her that i use lures and they are all fake, and she didnt know that worked.

then she went on to start talking about how this country doesn't care about mental health and they treat it as a joke but it's real. at this point i was like 'ummm okay ... wtf are you talking about, you starting to freak me out'. i forget how but eventually she stopped talking and sat down on this ledge at the path that goes around the lake.

i was about to leave before this happened, and told my buddy i was going to head out.

as i head out, she is like 'can i ask you one more thing before you leave? well maybe not ask you, but tell you something i need to get off my chest' and being a nice guy i said sure.

she then goes to tell me that she just found out her husband who passed away in october 2013, that she just found out the reason of death wasn't what was on the death certificate. and that his whole family thinks his death was his fault and what happened on the death certificate. she then continues to start talking about how when people are incarcerated, there are beatings that are allowed to go on by the guards and inmates. at this point i was like 'wwwwhhhhaaatttt ttthhheeee ffuuuccckkkk???'

i was like 'sorry about your situation but i really have to go' to which she replied 'okay sorry, i didn't mean to make this a therapy session'.

my buddy was watching the whole thing and was like WTF? after i left she got on her phone he said, and he quickly grabbed his shit while she was on the phone because he didn't want to have anything to do with her.

very odd and random as hell.
 
purbeast0 said:
i had an extremely weird situation happen this past weekend while i was fishing.

this lady asked me how long i have been fishing, so i asked did she mean today or in general. she said in general so i told her since i was a kid. she then started to tell me that she recently found out she is susceptible to brain aneurisms and she is only 36, and is looking for something relaxing to do but she can't fish because she is scared to put the worms on the hook. i told her that i use lures and they are all fake, and she didnt know that worked.

then she went on to start talking about how this country doesn't care about mental health and they treat it as a joke but it's real. at this point i was like 'ummm okay ... wtf are you talking about, you starting to freak me out'. i forget how but eventually she stopped talking and sat down on this ledge at the path that goes around the lake.

i was about to leave before this happened, and told my buddy i was going to head out.

as i head out, she is like 'can i ask you one more thing before you leave? well maybe not ask you, but tell you something i need to get off my chest' and being a nice guy i said sure.

she then goes to tell me that she just found out her husband who passed away in october 2013, that she just found out the reason of death wasn't what was on the death certificate. and that his whole family thinks that is the real reason of his death, and that it wasn't his fault. she then continues to start talking about how when people are incarcerated, there are beatings that are allowed to go on by the guards and inmates. at this point i was like 'wwwwhhhhaaatttt ttthhheeee ffuuuccckkkk???'

i was like 'sorry about your situation but i really have to go' to which she replied 'okay sorry, i didn't mean to make this a therapy session'.

my buddy was watching the whole thing and was like WTF? after i left she got on her phone he said, and he quickly grabbed his shit while she was on the phone because he didn't want to have anything to do with her.

very odd and random as hell.
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some people are lonely and sad. Film at 11!






I used to get people at my businesses that would come in and waste 2-3 hours talking about bullshit. I made a code. If any salesperson has someone like this come and isnt gonna do anything in the first 20 minutes someone comes and interrupts them and tells the person to call us when they are ready.

Your buddy should have rescued you !
 
JulesMaximus said:
And this guy I've never seen before says good morning to me. Now, I'm a pretty social guy so I say good morning back to him and continue on toward the entrance. About 20 seconds later he turns around and starts telling me a story about how the alarm on his phone has been acting funny and he is late because of that. It is going off at different times or not going off at all. I told him that it sounds like he might need a new phone.

Anyway, it was just random and kind of an odd thing to say to a total stranger. Maybe he's not from around here though... who knows? 😕

So, ATOT. Tell me what I did wrong in this situation and why I'm a bad person. 😛
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He was hitting on you.
 
Maybe it was a secret CIA code, he mistook you for another agent. You may have a foreign spy network working out of your building 😱

btw, all he needs to do it to factory reset his phone, or use a different alarm app, no need for a new phone.
 
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JulesMaximus said:
And this guy I've never seen before says good morning to me. Now, I'm a pretty social guy so I say good morning back to him and continue on toward the entrance. About 20 seconds later he turns around and starts telling me a story about how the alarm on his phone has been acting funny and he is late because of that. It is going off at different times or not going off at all. I told him that it sounds like he might need a new phone.

Anyway, it was just random and kind of an odd thing to say to a total stranger. Maybe he's not from around here though... who knows? 😕

So, ATOT. Tell me what I did wrong in this situation and why I'm a bad person. 😛
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I am sure if you would have responded like this he wouldn't have told you a story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwATvALiQ_8
 
Some people love to talk.

I had a lady tell me she got new floor mats in her car, when we were walking out of work.

"Great!"
 
People are random and weird, sometimes not even on purpose though, such as your guy and such as my guy I'm about to tell you about.
It was about 9pm and an older man with a white, long robe-looking thing on and a white burka on his head stop his car in the middle of a turn and started walking down the street toward us as we stand in front of our house. He came up and started mumbling something and it sounded like he was saying something like, "South, south". I was like, "You wanna go south? Are you lost?" Then he said, "South Temple, south Temple".
At that moment, I thought he was going to blow us up. I was like, "Shit, this guy is ISIS". Then it dawned on me. He was saying "Sikh Temple". So I asked him if that's what he said and he nodded yes. The poor guy was an old indian man and was lost who spoke no English, so I googled Sikh Temples and tried to give him directions to the nearest one, but he couldn't understand. He just wanted to get somewhere that people could speak his language.
He got his son on the phone and I spoke to his son who spoke English. He said his dad was lost and needed help, so he asked me for my home address so he can come pick him up. I was like, "Oh hell no, these terrorists will come here and kill us. The indian thing is just a sham to get to us". But then I was like, this dude is already here at my house, so I gave his son the major cross streets to get him close to his dad and his dad waited. He came and got him and no one died. I helped an odd stranger despite being nervous. Bogg Teresa.
The end.
 
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I personally find it a little sad that people engaging in small talk are considered out of the normal. Each time I talk to someone out of the normal in the morning I find it tends to lead to more positive feelings.
 
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