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Old 04-29-2009, 04:28 AM   #51
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This is an honest question, probing that disturbing mind...

If you were reading in a cafe or park bench at lunchtime, and if Tim and I sat down beside you, all nice and friendly and smililng, and pointed at your reader while saying, "I'll show you mine if you show me yours," how would you feel?

I ask, because this scenario is likely to happen. Would an introvert feel intruded upon, angry, glad to chat about a common interest, or backed into a corner by two happy extroverts? I'd like to know, because for one thing, I would never want to make someone feel threatened or anything.

In my extrovert mind... disturbing also... I would welcome such an intrusion.
Yes and no. Talking about a beloved gadget is perfectly fine, and I'd love tell people more about it. It's the risk of ending up continuing a conversation all through a train/bus ride, with someone I'm not really interested in talking to, I want to avoid. I'd have to concentrate about the conversation, think about what to say next and so on.

Conversation requires energy, and sometimes you just don't have so much of it to spend. Just being out in a crowd, with all the noise and movement can suck energy in itself.
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