Submitted 9 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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My wife and I are some weird combination of this. She’s a local doctor and we routinely sees people that recognize her that she can’t acknowledge first.
After volunteering multiple days at a local elementary school last year and working in a high school media center this year I’m a bit “that friend” but in a more creepy way because I know everyone’s kids, but not their parents.
That’s my wife. Leaving parties is the worst because I love the ol’ Irish Goodbye and she needs to say bye to EVERYONE at the party that she talked to.
Friend? What is this friend thing?
My friend says I act like this.
I read a book called “how to win friends and influence people” and it completely changed my life for the better once I started taking the book literally.
Everybody tends to be selfish and think of themselves (not in a bad way). If you play into this and learn what people are interested in, you instantly become interesting to that person.
“Hey Ricky, how’s your hot wheels collection! Get any new classics?” True story, different name. That’s just the butcher at the grocery store I frequent. He’ll tell me all about his latest hot wheels collection, and then I get a discount, we both win. I’ve made a friend, and influenced him to give me a deal.
I brew an 8-cup pot every morning. Most days I only drink half of it, a couple of times a week I drink the whole thing. I roast my own from a blend of coffees I spent almost a year nailing down.
I can quit whenever I want lol
What?
Lordy yes. I have a friend who's apparently friends with everyone else on the planet earth, he knows everyone from the mayor to the dog catcher to every person in every neighborhood we go into. Wherever we go, people come up to him and greet him and I'm like - uh - I'll just stand her and hold your coke. I feel like the wall flower that hasn't left my apartment in 25 years.
I am acquainted with quite a few people in my smallish town (35,000) and it’s very hard to go out and not run into at least one person I recognize. I frequent most of the local shops, get to know the owners, get friendly with the clerks. It serves one well to get to know people.
My mom. Grew up in a small town of a out 25,000 and my mom was the front office manager for the local orthodontist. Orthodontist was great and even folks from “the big city” went to her. My whole life was going out with my mom and running into people who wanted to talk
Ah, man. I used to have a friend just like this. We’re still friendly these days, I just stopped drinking so I don’t get out until the wee hours anymore.
Seriously we’d walk down the street and every third person he would stop and chat to as if they were lifelong friends… Somehow even after knowing him for years every time it would be people I didn’t recognise. I assume he must have been dealing or something.
Yeah mostly because i hang out at his neighbour hood (but even if it were mine i am not that popular there and the neighbour hood sucks ass).
How did you meet me and my brother? He has friends on every continent, I have like... 2 friends lol
Zach
I fk’n wish
My mom and my brother, whenever I went out with them when I was younger, would always greet at least 3 or 4 different people. I was always the weird, edgy, antisocial scarecrow
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You people have friends?