mila_brown10•20d agoProlific Poster

I was dead wrong about that chatty guy at the bus stop

Met this older dude named Frank waiting for the 7 bus on 3rd Street, and I figured he was just some lonely guy who talks too much (you know, the kind you avoid eye contact with). Turns out he was a retired mechanic who spent 20 minutes explaining how to fix my car's weird grinding noise for free, and saved me like $400 at a shop. Now I actually park my car a block over just so I can say hi and get his random life advice. Anyone else ever misjudge someone at a bus stop and end up with a weirdly good connection?

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paul28619d ago

Man, that's awesome! I had a similar thing happen with a grumpy lady at the laundromat. Thought she was just a miserable old coot but she ended up teaching me how to get tough stains out of basically anything. Now I look forward to her stories.

joseph_ellis8520d ago

Life's best lessons come wrapped in packages you'd never pick yourself.

charliestone19d ago

Take it easy @joseph_ellis85, not every rough patch needs to be a deep life lesson. Sometimes a bad job or a crummy relationship is just a bad job or a crummy relationship, not some profound package of wisdom. Honestly, people act like every disappointment is some grand teacher when half the time it's just something you move past and forget.