Smiling at strangers?

FoxEye · 20 Mar 2014 at 22:17

Eye contact is scary. I prefer to look at my feet. Safer. If they can't see my eyes, they can't look into my soul...

PhysicsMan94 · 20 Mar 2014 at 22:18

imb4tman said:
Did you hold the door open for them?

I guess it depends what floor of the building you're on...

Mr.Cookie · 20 Mar 2014 at 22:23

always smile and say good insert time of day upon making eye contact, just the way i am

"good evening"

arknor · 20 Mar 2014 at 22:23

imb4tman said:
Did you hold the door open for them?

lol no just women in passing that look you up and down then smile as they pass.

usually I just ignore them

m@rty · 20 Mar 2014 at 22:26

i get smiles all the time from strangers, but thats because im a hot piece of ass

PhysicsMan94 · 20 Mar 2014 at 22:27

m@rty said:
... but thats because im a piece of ass

Don't be so hard on yourself

m@rty · 20 Mar 2014 at 22:30

SexyGreyFox · 20 Mar 2014 at 22:35

Nix said:
Can't smile at women these days. The feminists go nuts.

I never have a problem but I suppose I am a DILF.

arc@css · 20 Mar 2014 at 22:37

ElliorR said:
How did you know they were tidy milfs? Were they doing handstands?

mrk · 20 Mar 2014 at 23:26

arknor said:
lol no just women in passing that look you up and down then smile as they pass.

usually I just ignore them

Huh, check you out mister!

4T5 · 20 Mar 2014 at 23:36

My shrink told me to think of everybody else as Robots so that there stupidity/Ignorance/Greed/selfishness/duplicity & hypocrisy doesn't make me want to kill them any more.
So no I don't smile at Robots.

Gzero · 20 Mar 2014 at 23:52

Thread title is misleading. Op only speaks of females in their experience yet suggests non gender specific!

Any people kind enough to let me cross the road at junctions, people that hold doors open for me and girls who glance more than once on the train (anything else is creepy, stop trying to undress me with your eyes lol!).

Freefaller · 21 Mar 2014 at 07:38

I'm a friendly person so always tend to give people a smile or even say "morning" if the situation permits it.

Too many scowling grumpy people in the world. Nothing wrong with putting a bit of positivity out there.

AndyCroft1982 · 21 Mar 2014 at 07:41

Its simple really if your in London you dont smile at people, if your outside of London then you smile at people.

When I go down to London I always make sure to talk to people on the tube and laugh as they recoil in utter fear that someone is talking on the tube lol

[FnG]magnolia · 21 Mar 2014 at 07:46

Overclockers UK Forums > Life > General Discussion > WHY ARE SOCIALLY FUNCTIONAL ADULTS SMILING AT ME?

Azza · 21 Mar 2014 at 07:47

K1LLSW1TCH said:
In general I don't, if it's somebody who I pass every day then I'll smile and say hello as I'm walking past. There's this one miserable **** who I see every day waiting for the bus just as I'm getting out of my car after work, I've walked past and said hello several times but he just looks right through me.

Probably thinks you're a mentalist.

Skidder · 21 Mar 2014 at 07:47

I smile at or greet people in my village all the time. When i lived in a very rough part of south London i didn't!

Gornall · 21 Mar 2014 at 08:04

Travel on trains quite a bit and a polite smile when I/someone sits down is quite a common occurence.

Freefaller · 21 Mar 2014 at 08:07

I often talk to people on the tube or on the bus in London.

Derek W · 21 Mar 2014 at 08:07

Depends on how you look and smile at the person.....