Striking Up a Conversation with Strangers

Gibbous, do you even ride the bus? You'd both get kicked of if that happened.
You have to pull the ol' switcharoo on them, ziggy should of asked an old smelly guy to switch seats with her. Then the dude would wake up pretending to accidently feel up on her, then see a man smiling back with most of his rotted yellow teeth missing.

Yawn. I've done it before and I haven't ever been kicked off anything. The bus is generally full of weirdos and heavy-duty alcoholics and no one gives a damn about what happens as long as the bus doesn't outright explode.

O/T but...
Ya I hear bus explosions is becomig a growning problem. Transit in america is not so nice, the bus drivers I'm used to don't put up with crap. If something starts, you both get kicked off, even if you weren't doing anything wrong.
Heck, where I live, the japanese bus drivers don't even let you talk very loud. One of them actually pulled over and looked at a japanese to english guide as to how to tell these teenagers to shut the hell up or he wasn't taking them home.

I remember a bus driver kicking off a white guy, his girlfriend/wife and child.
I was in the back of the bus sitting with some black folk who were older and the one beside me kinda reminded me of Bill Cosby. But ruder.

Anyway, the family gets on the bus and the guy sits down in a wife beater and has the mother and child stand.
One of the guys in the back of the bus called out and said 'yo man, why don't you let the lady sit down with her kid.' and the white guy was like 'you have a fucking problem? I'll give you a motherfucking problem'

and the bus driver stopped the bus and said get out. The guy argued and the bus driver said get out or get banned. So because of that guys behavior they had to get out where they were. I felt bad for the woman and her child.

Proof right there ^ bus drivers in the US don't take no shit.

When you says rude bill cosby I can't help but think of bill cosby saying "yooou are goooing to eat the gooodddddammmnn jeelll--ooo puudding."

Mmm, they'd be busy kicking people off all day here then ;D.
The bus I used to use more or less regularly, while there was some construction going on in the subway, went by the nutbin. You can guess the kind of people getting on that bus. People in out-patient treatment. "Singers", THE-LAST-DAYS-ARE-NIGH-shouters, ex-junks with their brains fried, the works. The bus driver would just keep his driver's cabin closed and the radio blasting.

What do you mean the guy sat in a wife beater?

Anyways, the guy really is a prick.

I worded things wrong. I was trying to describe what he was wearing and an action he was doing at the same time.

He was wearing a wife beater and he sat down and let the woman and child stand.

I must assume that you are not from america...

Wife beaters - also refered to as "tank tops" - are an article of clothing nicknamed as such because of the connotation they carry due to the fact that ghetto, redneck, or lower socio-economical people wear them. These people are often thought to be uneducated and aggressive, and thus, "beat their wife"
Here is a man wearing your typical wife beater. Notice the demeanor on his face that says "Ya, I think I'm badass" even though you probably know of several people that could kick his ass, as well as the mustard stain on his shirt citing improper dinning etiquette. He also holds a red cup, most likely filled with alcohol, denoting that he is more then likely drunk.



It is not entirely understood why people believe that the wifebeater is desirable to wear. Perhaps because of its reputation, men wear it as a means to show there toughness, that they too are aggressive enough to "beat their wife". It is also a conformtable form of clothing, as it does not restrict arm movement, but hugs tightly to the torso.

What is know is that wearing a wife beater in public will cause people to have a negative opinion of you, thinking of you as "stupid" or "redneck" or "ghetto" and often makes people think that you are infact a person who would "beat their wife"

Oh sorry, my bad. I didn't know that wife beater was a type of shirt (just googled it).

edit: Oh thanks razama, I only saw your post after I googled it myself.

I haven't read it much, I did the over talking mistake a couple of times before. Actually they act like vacant Konata when I only wait with a girl after we chat. They probably like it. I was in demise, here, I feel that if you're an ugly male, it's like every flirting you do is permitted.

Do you mean "isn't" permitted?

And I don't think it matter how you look. Looks give you a head start, but you don't get disqualified for not being good looking enough.

My friend isn't that great looking (uh... my bad george if you're reading this...), and on top of that he is in a wheel chair because of loosing both his legs. But George talks and flirts with more girls then any dude I know. You just have to make use of what you have. If you don't got the looks, so what? Girls eventually will leave a good looking guy if he isn't also funny, witty, and keeps the sexual tension up.

My buddy likes to take advantage of the fact that people treat him different because he is in a chair. I saw one night we were at a bar, and he intentionally pulled his wheel chair infront of a girl - like just cut her off from where she was going. She says "excuse me..." trying to be nice because he is handicapped. Well, George looks at her and says "Oh! oh, were you trying to get by?" with a smile. Then he shakes his head and say "Nah-uhn, too bad." and just stays in her way.

This was an attractive female so do had balls. Then he say "since your here you might as well sit down and have a drink, we'll negotiate me moving later"
But he says it with confidence, and with a playful attitude that it doesn't matter anymore that he is in a wheel chair, because he still act dominate, demands your attention, and more important is fun.

Yeah, but I think it's just for courtesy, a girl would look villanous if she ever reject an ugly guy and might get discriminated as earthly or lusty. I actually got rejected having the complete balls(sometimes too much I gotta tame it), look confident(because I look gloomy even when confident), sensuality(I unhide signs of attraction though my deep and low voice doesn't go with my boyish look), though I forgot what I joke about, that's what I pull when it gets boring, it's just that I'm legal to dump because I'm a slightly good looking. Me, I'm so careful putting off ugly girls and gays that are so adept at flirting in order not to get labeled as rude earthly guy. It's good wisdom for me to first go for looks. If I want false sexyness, I'd look for a love story, if I like jokes, I'll look go watch a comedian, if I like skill, I'd look for a worker. But of course to get good relation, you need compatible attitude, there's a slim MILF that's flirting at me and I flirt back slightly but I think she's dictator like too conservative, I can't go on with that.

In my experience, saying no is essential. Beating around the bush just tends to fuck with people, and life is too short for that.

Also: I honestly don't care if the masses accept me, so this may be a bit of a candid opinion.


I kind've understand how people don't want to be bothered while on transit, but wouldn't missing another blind chance of happiness outweigh being dragged through another awkward conversation?

I was at the bank last week waiting in line when I saw a man with a Notre Dame fighting Irish fitted hat, I asked him if he was a fan of the football team and he told me he was and that he had graduated from the university many years ago. We talked shop for a few minutes and he gave me his card, telling me to email him and offering to get me a hat the next time he was down (apparently has alumni hookups).

Question:
If you don't meet people on tranist, where else do you meet them? Do you go to your local bank like Waar? Of course you could go to the club/bars. But where do you feel comfortable meeting people at then?

1. Simplest is work or school. Many couples met there.
2. Gatherings by friends, you require to be a friend by some group members so you can hang out on their gatherings. Though, most there are singles so there will be a fight over T T.
3. Passing by, you can just walk for no reason then you might meet someone open for loving like in Chobits. Though now I look snobbish so that's why no girl approaches me first unless they're ugly. Or simply because I'm in adulthood and is a source of danger.

Going for the nice maybe usually not comfortable since young men fights over them.

I throw a shoe at said stranger.

I sometimes show 'em my penis. In my experience it's a good icebreaker.

Sorry, but I haven't read the entire thread. Don't feel like going through so many pages right now. Apologies if someone has already said pretty much everything already.

I think starting a conversation with a stranger is awesome. Best scenario, you get a new friend who is fucking amazing. Worst scenario, you never see the person again. Win-win, right?

(Too bad I can't take my own advice. I hate talking to people. :lol: Then again, I'm a strange guy.)

The only real problem is how to start the conversation. A while back, I was hanging with a friend at his school's D&D club, waiting for shit to start. He were talking, and a guy came up and said, "Hey, I like Mountain Dew, too." See, I was wearing this sweater that I had won from some Mountain Dew contest. It was black, and on the inside of the hood, there were a bunch of little Mountain Dew logos. My friend and I were a bit perturbed at this stranger, and though we tried to talk to him for a little while, the awkwardness never went away, because what the fuck kind of way is that to introduce yourself to someone? "I like soda, it's cool."

Thinking back on it, I feel sorry for the guy. He just wanted to meet new people and maybe make some friends. But that opening line killed it. Anything would have been better, even a simple "Hey, what's up?" or "You guys here for the D&D club? Me too."

Lesson learned: Don't try to start a conversation based on the fact that you both like to drink sugar water.