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InvisibleMOTH
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"Hey!" What is your stranger routine?
    #5276038 - 02/08/06 12:59 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I try to say 'hey' or 'hi' to everyone who crosses my path. I really hate passing someone without some sort of acknowledgement. It seems like a lost opportunity. I've noticed I feel happier when I greet people like that, it sort of makes me feel good to speak to a stranger in a friendly way. Generally people respond to me the same way, and I get the sense that they too are happy to be acknowledged.

So what is your 'stranger routine?' How do you react to people you've never met before? Do you make eye contact and smile with a word or two? Or is it all business, avoid eye contact, quickly walk past with no expression?

Just curious about how everyone treats strangers.


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InvisibleRESTLESS
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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: MOTH]
    #5276066 - 02/08/06 01:12 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I always make it a habit of saying hello and commenting on someones dog when I am out taking a walk in my neighborhood.

But sometimes I resist, because there are these mean cold-hearted looking evil people I walk by and it always tends to get kinda awkward you know?


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: MOTH]
    #5276078 - 02/08/06 01:17 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I try to make eye contact with anybody I walk past. Sometimes I say hi. Just to change things up, from now on I will say hi to everybody.


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InvisibleRESTLESS
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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: RedNucleus]
    #5276080 - 02/08/06 01:18 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

even if they look mean?


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OfflineCeeThruMeer
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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: RESTLESS]
    #5276109 - 02/08/06 01:30 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Eye contact with everyone... hi's to alot... but rather than hi or hey or hello i prefer a good old "Ride the tides sista/brother"... I like to say that to strangers.

But eye contact is the most important.... eye contact with substance... not just a blank stare... im talkin eye contact with intent... I want to let everyone know I love them whenever I look into their eyes... soul to soul.


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Edited by CeeThruMeer (02/08/06 01:31 AM)


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InvisibleRESTLESS
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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: CeeThruMeer]
    #5276118 - 02/08/06 01:36 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

That seems to be how all people here from Beautiful British Columbia seem to function :sun:


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: RESTLESS]
    #5276136 - 02/08/06 01:51 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I try making eye contact and to say a greeting to everyone that I meat. But usually they will just turn away and not acknowledge me. I'm a normal looking guy, non-threatening and all that; I think I come across as being kind of mean by the way I walk or something when nothing can be further from the truth than that. I'm really a very nice and mellow person but I tend to put strangers ill at ease when our paths cross. I don't know what it is but I think I scare people.


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: CeeThruMeer]
    #5276171 - 02/08/06 02:27 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

CeeThruMeer said:
Eye contact with everyone... hi's to alot... but rather than hi or hey or hello i prefer a good old "Ride the tides sista/brother"... I like to say that to strangers.

But eye contact is the most important.... eye contact with substance... not just a blank stare... im talkin eye contact with intent... I want to let everyone know I love them whenever I look into their eyes... soul to soul.




I wish more people like you lived in my town. :thumbup: I am getting better at being like that and it makes a huge difference to connect in small positive ways through the day with strangers.

:peace: :heart:


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
    #5276211 - 02/08/06 03:12 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I nod or greet everyone I like to be polite and friendly, I try to greet everyone I see in some way. Not too worried about mean or crazy people, because I am the veenom deelerr. My reputation precedes me. Most people are a little frightened of me, not that I run around picking fights in fact the opposite. Very easy going. You can blankly stare at me all you want. Try and start something with me for no reason and well, you made a big mistake. I am a reasonable person but if you act in a violent manner towards me I won't tolerate it.


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: MOTH]
    #5276262 - 02/08/06 03:54 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I live in a large city so it's impractical and threatening (for others) to say hello to everyone. On top of this the people in the country I live in are generally afraid of contact with strangers, especially the older generation, and react in the most hilarious (and pathetic/eye-averting) ways if you are jovial with them.


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: Lakefingers]
    #5276735 - 02/08/06 09:55 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I have a lot of "greetings" up my sleeve for strangers. There are many factors in deciding which one to use. Like Lakefingers said, in big cities with a lot of pedestrian traffic like New York, you're a creep if you greet everyone. Conversely, in small towns, you're a creep if you don't greet everyone. If I'm in an extroverted mood, I tend to do what I can to get inside strangers' personal bubbles for a brief moment. I should make a log. I should make a log of my friends' "greetings".

Good topic.


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: MOTH]
    #5276803 - 02/08/06 10:19 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I live and study in large cities in a large agglomeration in Holland. It's is very unusual to greet strangers over here and people look really weird if you say something. I do greet the people I know from my street and I do greet the busdriver etc, but not total stranger who walk by.

Funny thing is that people do greet each other if they have something in common; if you are very early and it's still dark, if you both have a dog, if you are both in the same shit, etc.


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: Sclorch]
    #5276837 - 02/08/06 10:27 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Well if I'm just walking I say hello to people I make eye contact with, I give people a smile if I can. I usually, not always, try to hold myself to high courtesy while walking. I do that because I feel that our world is getting less and less personal and a simple hello may make someone happy.

If I am on the phone I generally try to make it funny for people who are around. My friends conversations are generally confusing to those invlved much less those who only hear half. If im gonna say something incriminating i raise my voice a little and then afterwards act suprised and explain myself with exxagerated details..

all right thats starting to sound creepy, i'll just add the disclaimer that it is all in good fun and i only wanna get laughs out of people when i do it.

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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: Annom]
    #5277022 - 02/08/06 11:16 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

There is a political party in Holland that created a greet-zone in a part of a city. They placed greet signs in the streets with "greeting is allowed" on it:





Edited by Annom (02/08/06 11:18 AM)


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: Annom]
    #5281171 - 02/09/06 10:00 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Thats pretty cool actually.


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: PsychoChipmunk]
    #5281444 - 02/09/06 11:26 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

This is..


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: MOTH]
    #5281460 - 02/09/06 11:31 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

This thread is a real eye openner.

I live in such an angry racist city where everyone is bitter and resentful. There are only minimal opportunities for friendly banter. I gotta get out of here!


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: gluke bastid]
    #5283669 - 02/09/06 09:32 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I never realized how incredibly lucky I am to have grown up here in Nelson. I swear this is the chillest town in North America. there're only 10,000 people in the city... and about another 10 - 20,000 in the surrounding area. I walk one block downtown and at least 50% of the people say hi, make eye contact, or smile... well that may be a slight exageration... but point being... I've been surrounded by this type of behaviour most of my life, and I guess it has worn off on me :laugh:.


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my soul waits, forward" - Arjun and Guardians


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: MOTH]
    #5284082 - 02/09/06 11:12 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

meh. I usually only talk to people who are intruduced to me. My choice really. I don't need any more friends. If I want to get in with a group, usually try to find the leader of the group and get in good with them. The hangers on do not concern me. I generally don't try to make myself an easy person to know.


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Re: "Hey!" What is your stranger routine? [Re: MOTH]
    #5284149 - 02/09/06 11:29 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

i tend to look at people when i pass them by. if they look then i either make a grin/smily thingy, like a half smile, or just look at them and wait for their response.
its uncontrollable, i just do it but a note on why i think i do this:
i grew up in some rough areas when i was younger, so sometimes i get that old feeling that i might end up fighting the person... also for this reason the people i do the half smile to tend to be females or guys who seem to be in a good mood, and the glare or wait for their response i tend to do with younger guys who might look pissed off or something. also, the half smile i do i also do to make people feel less afraid or intimidated by me, again because of the rough places i grew up, some girls or skinnier guys would get really scared when they were alone and i walked by, even if i didnt do anything. and i dont like makin people scared.)


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