Meet a stranger
Monday, August 02, 2010
Monday, August 02, 2010
Today I had a rather interesting experience.
I read an article on meeting strangers today via sarahwilson.com
A topic I know a thing or two about working in customer service before.
And today I met a stranger who tried toforce on sell me insurance.
He asked me like what was I doing, whether I was working, working as what etc. Being straight forward I asked him: "what are you selling?"
"Nevermind about that what are you doing?"
"Shopping."
"Are you working?"
"What are you selling?"
"Nevermind about that what are you working as?"
Sounds super annoying right but the dude was quite good looking so I let him carry on and entertain me. Am I bad? No I told him that even if he tell me so many things I may not buy from him anything. So I was upfront about it but he continued on with his "sales" pitch.
His "sales" pitch included number crunching and flirting overtly.
I realized I do not like it when guys who I have no intention of flirting with flirt with me especially after I took a bus ride after work. Romantic no? If there was anything between us our "love story would go like this: We met after I took the bus from work and he stopped me to sell me insurance. It was true love.
-_-
I mean if I am in a club and had a few drinks I would be cool with a dude hitting on me. I mean it is expected being in a club and all. But some dude selling me insurance is another story. I mean he is obviously flirting because he wants you to buy insurance for all you know he could really think you are an ugly chick and someone he would never date. So it is really insincere.
He kept throwing in things like destiny, fate, marriage, dating and to give me this mood but it froze me solid. I played bimbo with hearing problems. I mean I do not like it when people keep pushing things at me when I am obviously not interested but am just doing polite listening.
I started to want to blow my nose and he stared at me. I HATE it when people do that I mean why can't you be tactful and like do something else? Why do you have to stare especially when I already excused myself and told you what I was going to do? Than he actually said: "You are so cute."
I ignored him and he was like: "Hey did you hear what I just said?"
Maybe it is his "style" of selling, maybe he thought being Casanova would make me want to buy the insurance from him. He did not realize that I only did not walk away from him because I was being entertained. Than I got bored. Problem was he had cornered me to show me stuff from his laptop at Starbucks. So I was trapped.
Than he told me a story about marriage and dating which was real deep.
A boy and a teacher who is coincidentally my name. The boy wants to know about dating so the teacher "Grace" ask him to go get some corn and he does not get it because he wanted to get the best and in the end was too afraid to take the corn that was the best.
Than he wants to know about marriage than he is told by the teacher to go get a tree and he goes and picks one and than teacher is like why so fast and the boy says that he found the tree he wants and does not need to search all over because his choice is for life. Hence marriage is for life also.
-_-
I was actually quite interested when he told me he wanted to tell me the story but mid-way I was kind of like deflated balloon.
I believe everything happens for a reason maybe I was meant to learn something from him or he from me. Whatever it is I am not very sure but it makes for a rather interesting meet a stranger experience.
I read an article on meeting strangers today via sarahwilson.com
A topic I know a thing or two about working in customer service before.
And today I met a stranger who tried to
He asked me like what was I doing, whether I was working, working as what etc. Being straight forward I asked him: "what are you selling?"
"Nevermind about that what are you doing?"
"Shopping."
"Are you working?"
"What are you selling?"
"Nevermind about that what are you working as?"
Sounds super annoying right but the dude was quite good looking so I let him carry on and entertain me. Am I bad? No I told him that even if he tell me so many things I may not buy from him anything. So I was upfront about it but he continued on with his "sales" pitch.
His "sales" pitch included number crunching and flirting overtly.
I realized I do not like it when guys who I have no intention of flirting with flirt with me especially after I took a bus ride after work. Romantic no? If there was anything between us our "love story would go like this: We met after I took the bus from work and he stopped me to sell me insurance. It was true love.
-_-
I mean if I am in a club and had a few drinks I would be cool with a dude hitting on me. I mean it is expected being in a club and all. But some dude selling me insurance is another story. I mean he is obviously flirting because he wants you to buy insurance for all you know he could really think you are an ugly chick and someone he would never date. So it is really insincere.
He kept throwing in things like destiny, fate, marriage, dating and to give me this mood but it froze me solid. I played bimbo with hearing problems. I mean I do not like it when people keep pushing things at me when I am obviously not interested but am just doing polite listening.
I started to want to blow my nose and he stared at me. I HATE it when people do that I mean why can't you be tactful and like do something else? Why do you have to stare especially when I already excused myself and told you what I was going to do? Than he actually said: "You are so cute."
I ignored him and he was like: "Hey did you hear what I just said?"
Maybe it is his "style" of selling, maybe he thought being Casanova would make me want to buy the insurance from him. He did not realize that I only did not walk away from him because I was being entertained. Than I got bored. Problem was he had cornered me to show me stuff from his laptop at Starbucks. So I was trapped.
Than he told me a story about marriage and dating which was real deep.
A boy and a teacher who is coincidentally my name. The boy wants to know about dating so the teacher "Grace" ask him to go get some corn and he does not get it because he wanted to get the best and in the end was too afraid to take the corn that was the best.
Than he wants to know about marriage than he is told by the teacher to go get a tree and he goes and picks one and than teacher is like why so fast and the boy says that he found the tree he wants and does not need to search all over because his choice is for life. Hence marriage is for life also.
-_-
I was actually quite interested when he told me he wanted to tell me the story but mid-way I was kind of like deflated balloon.
I believe everything happens for a reason maybe I was meant to learn something from him or he from me. Whatever it is I am not very sure but it makes for a rather interesting meet a stranger experience.
what we could have been, 4:22 PM.
