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(A 4Chan "green-text" titled "The elderly is wise", with a black-and-white portrait photograph of an elderly woman staring into the camera)
Be me, lonely guy in Britain
Get in the public transport to get back home
Sit next to a lovely old lady who smiled at me
Have a little talk
She tells me really interesting stuff and we have some laughs together
She tells that this day se would've been celebrating his brother's birthday but he is gone
We keep talking
She tells me a heartwarming advise:
'I could stay indoors and think about bad things, instead, I decide to go outside, see things, smile at people, they smile back at me, there is no point of being sad and angry at home'
Actually I feel like if I listened some sort of prophet
She gets to her stop and leaves, we say Happy Christmas to each other
Elderly deserve respect, I'll probably join as a volunteer to some kind of organisation that helps them.
Very location dependent. I grew up in some semi-rural areas and everyone says hello to each other in passing, and you can tell by their body language or reply whether they're up for a chat about bollocks or not.
Urban areas at rush hour - particularly London - is a different ball game. A thousand, maybe 1500 people (I don't know what the capacity is these days) people crammed onto a line of trains, and not a single word being spoken between anyone. I have never felt a feeling of being somewhere heavy populated but being so utterly disconnected since.
Yeah I get it - there's folk who don't want to talk (fair enough) or can't be fucked with pre-work or post-work talk (even more fair enough), but nothing so much as even an "alright mate". I suppose public transport attracts it's fair share of... unstable people, so maybe it's just easier and safer to zone out.
When two people come together in a "chat shit" mood though, it's really interesting who you can end up speaking to.
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Texas is small talk central.