Me, me, me.

[Tiffany]

@spitfire

I will talk to anyone, regardless, I even talk to my Bikes.

I talk to anyone as well, even my teddy bears.
My bike had a name too.

[mart]

@Harbal

In the six years that I’ve been in my flat, I have spoken no more than a few words to my neighbour who lives upstairs. In the last two weeks, however, I have had two proper conversations with him. The first was when he came and asked if I had a bike pump he could borrow, and the second was when he just happened to be passing, and I just happened to be outside.

He knows the local area better than I do, and as I recently bought a bike, I am keen to learn about all the paths and off road tracks in the locality, so that is what I tried to talk to him about. All he seemed to want to talk about was the medication he was on for his mental problems and his previous suicide attempts. I will probably try to avoid him in future if all he wants to do is talk about himself.

If I was your neighbour, we’d have gone for a ride and I’d have been showing you the paths and off-road tracks.

[paula]

@Artangel

I usually get random strangers in the street who tell me their life story but don’t let me butt in at any time!

I don’t mind if l have time but the worst was the woman stranger who was passing me whilst l was standing at a bus stop. Not satisfied with talking to me for the 10 minutes or so until my bus came, she decided to get on the bus with me for the 50 minute journey.
She never stopped and l was too polite to say, ‘Shut up, you’re boring and l don’t know these people you’re yapping on about’!

We got to my destination, she got off the bus, walked across the road and got on a bus back to where she’d come from!!

Art, that sounds like the same woman I sat beside on the bus before covid…it was the only seat left, I didn’t know her, she didn’t know me, but I got told all about her family and what they did and didn’t do…and she was whispering so I couldn’t pick up half what she was saying, so I nodded yes a lot of the time…thankfully I got off the bus before her…

[UkGameCoder]

I’m mostly a listener anyway, so I really don’t mind at all. I hear some really funny stories from the oldies around here.

About a year ago, Elsie, who lives at the end my block, told me that Brian (another neighbour) was the oldest person in the complex. She said he was 96 years old. I said that was amazing.

A few months later, I met Brian, and during his ten minute speech, he asked me how old I thought he was. Of course, I wanted to make him feel good about himself, so I told him he looked about 90. He looked at me, quite offended, and told me that he was 82!

Well, you imagine how I felt. I didn’t know where to put myself.

I’m certain that Elsie did this deliberately because I’ve since learned that Brian asks everyone the same question and Elsie knew this full well. So Elsie was playing a trick on me to deliberately get me into trouble! LOL!

All great fun. Elsie is actually lovely and loves to have a good gut laugh every day.

[SilverTabby]

@Tiffany

I talk to anyone as well, even my teddy bears.

Do they answer back? My Tigers don’t - they sit and look very wise.

[Bratti]

@Harbal

I don’t mind people talking; it’s only when they talk to me that I don’t like it.

Haha. Love it. Lol. We are more alike than I realized.

@Psmith

Perhaps you could suggest some more effective methods of suicide to him.

Thats just nasty. :-(:twisted:

@Tiffany

I talk to anyone as well, even my teddy bears.

I’m very selective with whom I chat with however I did / do talk to my teddy bears.

[Bratti]

@mart

If I was your neighbour, we’d have gone for a ride and I’d have been showing you the paths and off-road tracks.

Now this is a nice post. What a lovely neighbour you are. I’d probably have explained where they were also. Being a woman, it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to show in person.

[keezoy]

Yes good on you Mart. Im happy ton have a chat with anybody at all. Im not huge on talking about myself…especially my health problems. Im happy to listen . Doesnt matter what the conversation is about. All somebody has to be is to have some manners. Im not interested in “wind ups” …I think they are a sign of a lazy, unfulfilled mind. But if im being wound up, i sometimes take the bait. That is my failure. But if somebody wants to talk. I dont care who they are. I am very reluctant to label anybody “boring”. I believe you can learn something from everybody you meet.

[Tachyon]

Wearing earbuds or headphones is a good way to avoid conversations. You don’t even need to be listening to anything, because people just assume you are anyway.

[Psmith]

Clever.

If anyone talks to me they always seem to be boasting about something.With my inferiority complex I don’t need that sort of thing.

But it’s important to remember,as Oscar Wilde once said,“Everybody needs good neighbours,they should be there for one another and that’s when neighbours become good friends”

[keezoy]

@Psmith

Clever.

If anyone talks to me they always seem to be boasting about something.With my inferiority complex I don’t need that sort of thing.

But it’s important to remember,as Oscar Wilde once said,“Everybody needs good neighbours,they should be there for one another and that’s when neighbours become good friends”

You legend Smithy! I have a feeling your “inferiority” is all in your head. But i guess that is stating the bleedin obvious. ;)7

[SilverTabby]

@keezoy

Yes good on you Mart. Im happy ton have a chat with anybody at all. Im not huge on talking about myself…especially my health problems. Im happy to listen . Doesnt matter what the conversation is about. All somebody has to be is to have some manners. Im not interested in “wind ups” …I think they are a sign of a lazy, unfulfilled mind. But if im being wound up, i sometimes take the bait. That is my failure. But if somebody wants to talk. I dont care who they are. I am very reluctant to label anybody “boring”. I believe you can learn something from everybody you meet.

The sweet voice of reason - as always, Keezoy! :-D:-D

[susan_m]

I used to catch the bus each day for a half hour journey. I had noticed one particular woman would sit next to people and talk incessantly at them . I always avoided eye contact .
I was on the bus coming home and as we stopped at the bus station I noticed she was in the queue and in a few moments she had plonked herself next to me and opened her mouth to start and out came a load of uninteresting talking . As she started I looked blankly at her and mouthed
" sorry I’m deaf "

It worked

[spitfire]

Gosh you lot, no wonder the Trickcyclist Couch Company went bust!!

[PixieKnuckles]

@susan m

I used to catch the bus each day for a half hour journey. I had noticed one particular woman would sit next to people and talk incessantly at them . I always avoided eye contact .
I was on the bus coming home and as we stopped at the bus station I noticed she was in the queue and in a few moments she had plonked herself next to me and opened her mouth to start and out came a load of uninteresting talking . As she started I looked blankly at her and mouthed
" sorry I’m deaf "

It worked

Oooh! She won’t be bothering you again, Susan!

I don’t mind people talking to me for a few minutes, but when they start talking about people I don’t know, who are ill or have passed away, that annoys me. I just say I’m sorry for their loss and try and make an excuse to end the conversation, or an excuse to leave. I do feel for them, but if I don’t know them, or the people they are referring to…

[spitfire]

You don’t have to know someone to know somebody;-).

[Twink55]

Lots of people have mental health problems & I suspect that loneliness causes many of them.

I appreciate that many of you are joking on this thread, but if I was looking at this forum in the hope of finding friends to talk to, as I was lonely, comments on here would make me look elsewhere.

I can always find a few minutes to talk to a stranger, because I may be the last person they talk to that day. Most of us can spare a few minutes of our day, I mean look how long we spend on here talking to people who were once strangers! :surprised:

[Last_Tango]

@Twink55

Lots of people have mental health problems & I suspect that loneliness causes many of them.

I appreciate that many of you are joking on this thread, but if I was looking at this forum in the hope of finding friends to talk to, as I was lonely, comments on here would make me look elsewhere.

I can always find a few minutes to talk to a stranger, because I may be the last person they talk to that day. Most of us can spare a few minutes of our day, I mean look how long we spend on here talking to people who were once strangers! :surprised:

Well said, Twink.

[Harbal]

@Artangel

I usually get random strangers in the street who tell me their life story but don’t let me butt in at any time!

I don’t mind if l have time but the worst was the woman stranger who was passing me whilst l was standing at a bus stop. Not satisfied with talking to me for the 10 minutes or so until my bus came, she decided to get on the bus with me for the 50 minute journey.
She never stopped and l was too polite to say, ‘Shut up, you’re boring and l don’t know these people you’re yapping on about’!

We got to my destination, she got off the bus, walked across the road and got on a bus back to where she’d come from!!

What a horrific ordeal, Art, I hope it doesn’t put you off using public transport. :shock:

[Harbal]

@mart

If I was your neighbour, we’d have gone for a ride and I’d have been showing you the paths and off-road tracks.

How kind of you, mart, if only you were my neighbour.