I don't spend a lot of time talking to random people in
public. I am friendly, just not that
outgoing. I don't really want to bother
people. The funny thing is, that usually
doesn't apply to visits to the hobby store.
In the hobby store, or at hobby shows, I find myself drawn into all
kinds of conversations--sometimes not even about hobbies.
If I had to guess, I would say that there is something
special about hobby shops. The
atmosphere lends itself to conversations that you might not otherwise have. This is true of other hobby related shops as
well. I have had some rather interesting
conversations at comic books stores...but since everyone has seen episodes of
The Big Bang Theory, this is no longer a nerd only shared mystery. Some people might think that the show is an
exaggeration.....how wrong they would be.
The hobby shop, or comic book shop, or some other specialist
shop, is an easy place to have a conversation.
Most people have too much knowledge to contain within themselves for too
long, so they have to let it out. Most
of the time the advice I have received has been wonderful and amazing. Some times I took it, and sometimes I
didn't--sometimes that was a smart move, and sometimes I regret not taking
it....such is life.
The most interesting of these times for me were in Japan Japan
For those of you who are even less outgoing than myself, but
still want to strike up a conversation, I suggest wondering something out
loud. It should work like a charm.
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