So I have this idea for a social experiment of sorts. I walk into a coffee shop, sit at an empty table, place a sign in front of me that reads "Free Chit-Chat," and see if anyone actually sits down to talk to me. The idea comes from a report on an experiment in which it was discovered that city buses are silent not because people don't want to talk, but more because people are too afraid that everyone ELSE doesn't want to talk.
Well...what happens when I remove that uncertainty?
It's an interesting experiment, and I may pull it off one day. Not for everyone else's sake, but for my own. For some reason, I seem to have lost all notion of conversational ethics. I don't look people in the eye, I mumble and ramble, and I talk a lot to myself. When I'm confident, I know I can really get people to open up, but lately, that just hasn't been me. I think an experiment like this would definitely help me get comfortable talking with people again.
That is, if I ever do it. We'll see if that day ever comes.
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