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Random people

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Random people love to talk to me. I say I have a freak magnet and while not all the people who talk to me are freaks and unless they totally creep me out, I'll generally engage them in conversation for at least a few minutes.


Since Saturday, I've had 2 people just approach me to ask me about things and last night at Home Depot we got the life story of the sales clerk who helped us.

Admittedly we went and sought out the sales clerk and she was very nice but she practically gave us her life story as we were looking for something to cover our plants from the potential frost. We ended up with some burlap for the plants.

Just today while in CVS a young girl approached me and asked me about what I thought about a certain hair color product she had and was going to purchase. This is a busy CVS with loads of other shoppers in it.

We discussed said product and how I thought the color might be a bit light since she was dying only part of her very dark hair and that her skin coloring and that shade might not mix so well but if she wanted a dramatic effect, she would probably achieve it by choosing that shade.

On Saturday as my husband and I along with our dogs made our way over to the Farmers Market on Elmwood and Bidwell, a random guy approached us and asked all these kinda odd questions about the market.

He is from Buffalo but moved to Santa Monica and was visiting. We chatted a bit with him as he just seemed kinda stoned and not at all creepy. The dogs thought he smelled interesting too and they're usually a pretty good judge of character. :-)


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💬 4 comments

  1. gardenmama ·

    Gotta love Buffalo! "The land of Ramdom People talking to anyone who will listen."
  2. gardenmama ·

    Oh, wait, it just occured to me, my last comment is somewhat reflective of my blogging on this site - hahaha
  3. tinypliny ·

    Hahaha, I admit that I am the random person who approaches people all the time and talks till they are ready to run away. I have to say that my garrulousness has been one of the primary reasons for my not feeling homesick, isolated and completely alien in this country. :)I think if you are friendly-looking and have even a slightly optimistic look about you, I might have been the person asking you your opinion about cookies or generally anything (newish and alien to me) in CVS or Walgreens or on Elmwood. Buttonholing absolute strangers has given me a better understanding of not just pop culture here but nutritional habits, political attitudes and mannerisms of speech here. So yeah, I thank you for being so accomodating on the behalf of the "I-need-someone/anyone-to-ask-this-gang".
  4. ladycroft ·

    wherever in the world i am, people ALWAYS stop me and ask for directions! seriously. as in several times a day. we're magnetic.

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