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Originally Posted by Aux-In
I absolutely agree with you in most cases, but the guy was intelligent, so I didn't mind talking to him/listening to his stories. He volunteered all of that. I didn't have to coax it out of him. Keep in mind that intelligent conversation from strangers (in real life) is a super race occurrence for me, so I didn't feel the need to bolt from small talk like in most cases.
I wanted to take a picture with him just because, but things were already weird enough.
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This absolutely happens. I agree with Batlord in the sense that I consciously avoid small talk with strangers whenever possible but I do recall getting completely sucked into a conversation on New Years Eve at a biker bar with a 70-something year old Vietnam vet, he gave me a cigar and told me all about his insane adventures as a fighter pilot and what it was like to return home. Some people are just good story tellers, you hear a few sentences from them and it's too late, you're in it to the end.