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I'm afraid that anyone who sits next to me on a train will get my life story. And I theirs...Having said that I often have fleeting conversations with some people and they manage to mention immigrants and Farage in a short space of time, not noticing the fact that I'm neither acknowledging or agreeing with them.

I'm afraid that anyone who sits next to me on a train will get my life story
Maybee 😁

People always seem to tell me their story.
It always happens if I take a train - but also in the park, in a café, anywhere I stop for a while. It even happens in London - though not so often probably.

I have been told things that apparently these strangers haven't ever told anyone else. Once an extraordinary story as I was standing, wondering where to go next. I had visited a hermit's cave in a remote area in Italy. It was a woman who gave me snippets of info including about her daughter. She told me these things when her friend moved off to look at the view/the map/ their picnic in the boot of the car... and wasn't listening.
I gave her my number as it was strange (and weirdly magical and said "anytime").
She never rang.

I think I must just look approachable 🤷‍♂️
I'm always told where people were born, grew up, their parents. Regularly people "unburden" themselves. It feels like a service.
One of my daughters gets this too.

Talking to and learning something of others I think is a privilege.

I do sometimes make a new best friend when waiting in a queue! Or perusing an item on a shelf.
😁

Allira I did have a very long conversation with a young Muslim woman whilst perusing an item on a shelf.

I did have a long conversation with our French hosts yesterday about the provision of care for children during the long summer holidays, compared with the UK, the expectation of things that parents have to supply, even for early years children at school and the cost of maintaining the swimming pool over the summer and the differing treatment of that facility by various guests.
I didn’t ask where they came from, and they didn’t give me information about their religion! Oh bother! Now I feel such a failure.😥

On my three hour train journey yesterday I spoke to no one and no one spoke to me- even the ticket collector just beeps a machine.

There was a terribly drunken man though rattling on about his grandchildren... he complained about their being no refreshment trolley but when it finally came he ordered four bottles of Corona beer!

Oreo

Wyllow3

I think I live in a different universe sometimes. There must be 15 different nationalities working and attending the gym I go to. I regularly chat to Muslim women since they are there changing like everyone else talk kids and food and stuff. I went to a chair shop after wards and bumped into a young refugee from Syria who was once a swim guard at the gym pool, rather lonely - maybe 16 or 17? and learning English We greeted each other warmly 3 years on and he is now taking children like my granddaughter to a special school and back, and of ourselves these children see him as a friend and he was happy and settled and I think has a girlfriend now.

Yesterday in the park I had a long natter with a Somali mum and her two girls about general things then (she has been to uni) we talked about the theology of Islamic beliefs of God compared with other religions. she has a headscarf, her two girls, whizzing on bikes, western dress. In Sainsburys had a laugh with a woman shopping for her family to go to Morocco...

You bitter people are missing out on so much!

Yes we have far too many people coming and this cant go on

but sometimes I honestly wonder if some here see others as animals not human beings. With most, you just have to get talking to people with an open mind and heart.

People get whipped up by the likes of GP news and miss whats under their nose if they just pointed it in another direction.

What a load of cobblers.

Wyllow3
I’m sure you didn’t mean to but this post comes across as virtual signalling on speed.
I’m sure there are hundreds of members here who live the scenarios you describe.
Why do we not feel the need to tell the world that we mix with other nationalities? There’s just no need. It doesn’t enter our heads.
It’s almost patronising.

These threads are getting like a competition, showing off who has the most everyday contact with people of different nationalities, particularly Africans.

Mollygo you and I take the French prize, but as you say, I don't think we mention the provenance or religion of those we speak with! We need to do better!

keepingquiet

On my three hour train journey yesterday I spoke to no one and no one spoke to me- even the ticket collector just beeps a machine.

There was a terribly drunken man though rattling on about his grandchildren... he complained about their being no refreshment trolley but when it finally came he ordered four bottles of Corona beer!

That’s more like rail journeys for most people, tho the drunken grandad is sometimes a smartly suited git spouting into his mobile non stop and loudly, or a pair of teenage girls shrieking and giggling, or a tattooed lout banging his can of Coke on the table in time to the music leaking from his headphones.

Oreo

keepingquiet

On my three hour train journey yesterday I spoke to no one and no one spoke to me- even the ticket collector just beeps a machine.

There was a terribly drunken man though rattling on about his grandchildren... he complained about their being no refreshment trolley but when it finally came he ordered four bottles of Corona beer!

That’s more like rail journeys for most people, tho the drunken grandad is sometimes a smartly suited git spouting into his mobile non stop and loudly, or a pair of teenage girls shrieking and giggling, or a tattooed lout banging his can of Coke on the table in time to the music leaking from his headphones.

Just reminded me why I avoid train journeys whenever/wherever possible.

Mollygo

Of course Oreo, there's a fair bit of that too!

escaped

These threads are getting like a competition, showing off who has the most everyday contact with people of different nationalities, particularly Africans.

Mollygo you and I take the French prize, but as you say, I don't think we mention the provenance or religion of those we speak with! We need to do better!

😂

It's called a Top Trump

(Oops!!)

Sometimes the meander is more interesting than the thread though Allira!

So today, at the Centre Commercial Beaulieu, I talked to a lady, about climate change and the wonders of air conditioned hyper markets. She was black and not in western dress and we watched her son on the climbing wall and DH visited les toilettes. I didn’t ask her where she came from, but her French was definitely better than mine.
She asked where I was from😱 and when I said England, she said she had been to the Lec Deestreect.
Religion still went unmentioned, so will my report say”Must do better?”

Yes Mollygo you need to winkle out far more info than that, so next time give them a proper grilling.🤭

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What a lot of snobbery . Shocking. No wonder people prefer that news channel.