― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
If I am Walking in the Country, then I will say hello and nod encouragingly to everyone else on the trail. (so long as they are not utter arsewipes.)
I don't know why this is. Maybe I am more relaxed in the country. Maybe I think that anyone who is Walking for Fun is more likely to be friendly.
― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katarina), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I've always pondered this, i remember starting a thread on ilx some years ago, I think i put it down to the feeling of being on alien territory. Seeing other humans was like similarly bumping into someone you knew if you were away on holiday.
― Ste (fuzzy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Me too. Ditto the book thread.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
rofl, i didn't know it was
― Ste (fuzzy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Besides, it IS odd that you will say hello to complete strangers in the country, but not in the city. Why is that?
― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I can get you a needle for them, and the thread's right here!
(That's my Dad joke.)
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
In the country a passer-by is probably someone you know, or that someone you know knows, or who will be at the cafe or post office or etc the next time you go through, and so social accountability is much greater. Also I think there must simply be some human element to recognize each other as part of the human community when your backdrop and surroundings are all Nature, Red in Tooth and Cliff-face, but that whole "shared humanity" thing has probably been codified over time, by practice, into a sort of bluff "hello" in passing.
There! I love a little baseless speculation in the morning.
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link
It's great moving to a small village as an adult, though, because you can tell people as much or as little about yourself as you like. And if everyone else there has moved from the city as well, they won't give a shit anyway.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (fuzzy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― DavidM (DavidM), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
It depends where I am. If I am in the ILX Nexus of Holborn, quite frequently. Ditto if I'm around the intersection of Graham Road and the main bit of Hackney, just because I know so many people who live around there.
― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business (Scourage), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I often do, but then I lived in Dublin, went to college there, worked there, and so on and so on, so I've built up several groups of people to avoid in one small city.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
i walked fast this morning to catch up to my friend who was meeting me at the gym - it's weird b/c our paths have never crossed before even though we've had this routine for months - which also is amazing b/c it's always a matter of just a minute or two whether you'll run into someone or not. the world. pretty awesome.
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
EMSK RIGHTEOUSLY OTM
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― 0.7 (526), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
this happens to me in london!!!
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― DavidM (DavidM), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
The worst thing is a gang of were-three-toed-sloths in human form walking eight abreast at a rate of approximately 2 klicks per decade blocking the whole sidewalk.
― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link