When was the last time you met friendly people?
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swerni said:
Tonto said:
swerni said:
Stuck In A Lift said:
I've been getting into photography
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Your, uh, your wife, does she go, eh, does she go, eh?
FlossyThePig said:
swerni said:
Tonto said:
swerni said:
Stuck In A Lift said:
I've been getting into photography
say no more Your, uh, your wife, does she go, eh, does she go, eh?
mike-r said:
theshrew said:
Since getting a motorbike. When im out on a run and stop off for a break etc the people you meet are always friendly.
+1 Had this today, a friendly old lady asking me where I've been and so on at some services. Yet to meet an unfriendly biker. I should have included except when your riding in North Wales, Amazing roads and views but a lot of the people are helmets ( apart from the tourists )
Impasse said:
Please don't do this to me. Ever. 
Quite. I can't stand it when people I don't know just start talking to me.Come to think of it, it's bad enough when it's people I *do* know.
I don't really *do* "other people". Not everyone does. There's a lot of us who, most of the time, would just rather be left alone. Nothing wrong with me, that's just how I am....
mike-r said:
+1 Had this today, a friendly old lady asking me where I've been and so on at some services. Yet to meet an unfriendly biker.
Generally found this to be true and then when I started diving I noticed a similar trend. I think the shared experience that a relatively small %age of people engage in helps.papa3 said:
mike-r said:
+1 Had this today, a friendly old lady asking me where I've been and so on at some services. Yet to meet an unfriendly biker.
Generally found this to be true and then when I started diving I noticed a similar trend. I think the shared experience that a relatively small %age of people engage in helps.Not many places i have been to where a sweeping statement is apt but currently on holiday in the Orkneys and everyone is really friendly, it's a bit like stepping back in time 30 years or so where everyone acknowledges each other when driving or walking past each other and even the Tesco checkout staff are chatty and polite.
Met a lovely chap on Holiday, got on well with me and Mrs Doublesix. Arranged to meet up for lunch a number of days, got pissed and generally had a good laugh.
Said to the Mrs "What a lovely fella, you know me, I'm normally very stand-offish and cynical but I think this chap is just a genuinely a nice bloke who is pleased to have met some like-minded Brits whilst away from his family"
So at the end of the holiday we all said our goodbyes and arranged to meet him and his GF when next in the UK.
Got home and received an email about an "opportunity" - f
king pyramid selling !! 
Said to the Mrs "What a lovely fella, you know me, I'm normally very stand-offish and cynical but I think this chap is just a genuinely a nice bloke who is pleased to have met some like-minded Brits whilst away from his family"
So at the end of the holiday we all said our goodbyes and arranged to meet him and his GF when next in the UK.
Got home and received an email about an "opportunity" - f
king pyramid selling !! Mountain Biking is the same, everyone talks, says hi, will stop if you're hurt and go as far as taking complete strangers to A&E and securing their bikes for them.
I personally think it's a trust thing, the Papers and the TV tell us the world is full of nutters ready to behead you, every man is a sexual deviant, everyone under 30 is a Hoodie etc etc - but if you meet someone who shares a hobby with you they must be okay.
I personally think it's a trust thing, the Papers and the TV tell us the world is full of nutters ready to behead you, every man is a sexual deviant, everyone under 30 is a Hoodie etc etc - but if you meet someone who shares a hobby with you they must be okay.
I've recently taken up road cycling again and found other road cyclists in Luxembourg to be a bunch of ignorant gits, but MTBers always say "hi!" as they pass on cycle routes.
Other than that, in my work I travel a lot and meet many people, most of whom are friendly. Our group at Le Mans has swelled since my first trip in 2009, and although I live ~500miles from many of them, we still get together during the year whenever we can.
Other than that, in my work I travel a lot and meet many people, most of whom are friendly. Our group at Le Mans has swelled since my first trip in 2009, and although I live ~500miles from many of them, we still get together during the year whenever we can.
Dog walking.
Me and the missus don't have a dog, but we'd like to get one. We went off to The Cotswolds for the weekend and just strolling about towns and walking on Rodborough Common nr Stroud encountered loads of dog walkers, all of whom wanted to stop and chat whilst we fussed over their pooches.
Yeah, I know <insert dogging joke here>
Me and the missus don't have a dog, but we'd like to get one. We went off to The Cotswolds for the weekend and just strolling about towns and walking on Rodborough Common nr Stroud encountered loads of dog walkers, all of whom wanted to stop and chat whilst we fussed over their pooches.
Yeah, I know <insert dogging joke here>
Most people are friendly. I do tend to talk to strangers in a queue or next to me if appropriate but if I'm not in the mood or they don't appear to be then keep myself to myself and leave it at exchanging the usual appropriate pleasantries appropriate to the situation.
Last friendly person I met was at a small aircraft museum on Sunday. A Biplane was going overhead and we happened to be next to each other whilst we stopped to look up. I said I wondered if it was the one that is always passing over Snetterton and the chap started to tell me about the two local yellow Biplanes and the chap that owns one being all involved in Mustangs (the flying type) and talking about the Lancaster that may or may not be taking to the skys again in a few years.
As for holiday friendships I've been about long enough to know that they are best kept to the holiday and perhaps the odd post holiday e-mail. People hold an infinite ability to disappoint.
Last friendly person I met was at a small aircraft museum on Sunday. A Biplane was going overhead and we happened to be next to each other whilst we stopped to look up. I said I wondered if it was the one that is always passing over Snetterton and the chap started to tell me about the two local yellow Biplanes and the chap that owns one being all involved in Mustangs (the flying type) and talking about the Lancaster that may or may not be taking to the skys again in a few years.
As for holiday friendships I've been about long enough to know that they are best kept to the holiday and perhaps the odd post holiday e-mail. People hold an infinite ability to disappoint.
Having worked in sales I'd say most people are friendly - especially when it comes to the general public, as opposed to dealing with purchasing departments...
I've never had a problem talking to strangers, and have been rebuffed in N. America, Europe and N. Africa, but have also had many interesting and polite conversations (some in sign language too) in those same places.
It always amuses me when peeps return from a holiday somewhere new and exclaim 'and the people were sooo friendly!' - what did you expect? Head-hunting cannibals? Frenchmen?
I'd like to think that it's a universal trait of humans to teach their young to be approachable and helpful, rather than distrusting and looking for opportunities to profit from you (although that does happen too).
I've never had a problem talking to strangers, and have been rebuffed in N. America, Europe and N. Africa, but have also had many interesting and polite conversations (some in sign language too) in those same places.
It always amuses me when peeps return from a holiday somewhere new and exclaim 'and the people were sooo friendly!' - what did you expect? Head-hunting cannibals? Frenchmen?
I'd like to think that it's a universal trait of humans to teach their young to be approachable and helpful, rather than distrusting and looking for opportunities to profit from you (although that does happen too).
I cycled from Peterborough to London on Sunday on a whim (as you do...) and everyone was amazingly friendly.
A (very hot) woman in a tearoom filled my water bottles up for free.
A random gyppo bloke gave me directions through a field when I was completely lost somewhere near Baldock.
A jogger insisted I take his map when I asked him for directions.
Every time I stopped and asked how to get to London everyone wanted a bit of a natter, it really restored my faith in human nature
I didn't realise till I got home quite how mucky and bug splattered I was, they probably all thought I was nuts!
A (very hot) woman in a tearoom filled my water bottles up for free.
A random gyppo bloke gave me directions through a field when I was completely lost somewhere near Baldock.
A jogger insisted I take his map when I asked him for directions.
Every time I stopped and asked how to get to London everyone wanted a bit of a natter, it really restored my faith in human nature
I didn't realise till I got home quite how mucky and bug splattered I was, they probably all thought I was nuts!
Sump said:
People are generally annoying, full of BS and have hidden agendas. Thus I don't go out of my way meet anyone or try and get to know new people.
It's a slightly cynical outlook, but sadly its one that I generally share. 
And things like this only confirm my suspicions about hidden agendas :DoubleSix said:
Met a lovely chap on Holiday, got on well with me and Mrs Doublesix. Arranged to meet up for lunch a number of days, got pissed and generally had a good laugh.
Said to the Mrs "What a lovely fella, you know me, I'm normally very stand-offish and cynical but I think this chap is just a genuinely a nice bloke who is pleased to have met some like-minded Brits whilst away from his family"
So at the end of the holiday we all said our goodbyes and arranged to meet him and his GF when next in the UK.
Got home and received an email about an "opportunity" - fking pyramid selling !!
I tend to figure that I'm better generally off keeping myself to myself.Said to the Mrs "What a lovely fella, you know me, I'm normally very stand-offish and cynical but I think this chap is just a genuinely a nice bloke who is pleased to have met some like-minded Brits whilst away from his family"
So at the end of the holiday we all said our goodbyes and arranged to meet him and his GF when next in the UK.
Got home and received an email about an "opportunity" - f
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