Thursday, March 19, 2009
No Sounds of Silence Here
The most amazing thing happened to me today, Laura reports. A Brit spoke to me spontaneously on the street, and she wasn't even intoxicated! The British are a rather reserved lot. Unless you ask a specific question of someone or are a customer in a store or a restaurant, you won't have much opportunity to actually interact with them. I won't bore you with the particulars of the conversation (it wasn't especially interesting), but the fact of the interaction was definitely noteworthy!
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I think that is a byproduct of living in such a big city, surrounded by so many people, that the natural reaction is to shut out anyone not immediately connect to your life, lest one become overloaded with personal contact. It was that way in the SF Bay area too.
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