...is that
the Americans start chats with unknown people. I think this form of open mindedness
is something we really can learn from this culture. They just wait for the bus
and you see that someone asks someone else when the bus comes and after this they
start to speak the whole time in the bus as if they were old friends and just met
accidentily at the bus station.
One day I was
inline skating in Golden Gate Park and there was this good place with great
pavement at 6th Street. There was a guy who I have seen there often
and after some minutes I chatted with him about the differences between the
skates nights in Europe and here. He gave me some tips for good places for
inline skating and in general it was a very nice chat. I really enjoyed it.
On the same
day in the evening I went to a theater. There was me and another guy waiting
alone in the foyer and some minutes later we had a great chat about the improv
theater scene in San Francisco.
It is
strange, because you can do things alone here, but normally you are not alone
for a long time.
Okay,
exceptions confirm the rules, because I've been sitting here for about an hour
and writing these words and drinking my beer alone and I haven't met new
friends. But maybe it is just because I'm sitting behind my laptop which builds
a kind of wall. I think if I were sitting at the bar I would now be having an
interesting discussion about whatever.
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