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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LMLDallas78" data-source="post: 380309" data-attributes="member: 55682">Of course, well it's OK if we ourselves say bad things about where we live, but no one is allowed to!Me too, I'm getting better as I get older and try hard not to be so judgemental/suspicious when first meeting people. Trouble is past experiences have taught me I've usually always been right with my initial judgement.I do that so often. If I've had a nice conversation I wish I could later meet that person again once I've remembered who they are and explain any vagueness on my part, which is usually present all the time anyway. Other times of course I'm thankful I don't remember them and don't even try to.During lockdown I had a lengthy chat with someone who approached me in a supermarket and obviously knew me well. I managed to hold a decent, very general conversation, but when they left and my husband asked who it was I said I didn't have a clue! Masks for me during that time were tricky for hearing people and trying to see out of my steamed up glasses.I'm good at being able to cut off a general chit chat. I observe endless people that you can see squirming while not really wishing to engage. I'm not rude, but I'll just politely explain I need to be somewhere.That's it! When I do muster all my confidence and attempt to start up a conversation with someone you can guarantee I'll get that look as if to say why on earth are you talking to me, don't smile at me, why are you happy, I don't know you.On the whole though most people are more than happy for a chat for a way of passing the time or in awkward public situations. It is a dying trend these days when everyone is on their mobiles and most with headphones.</blockquote>

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