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What Is a Stranger

What Is A Stranger Sitting next to people on a plane Simply no one wants to share their name If you talk it is so pretty plain Many weirdos think you seem insane. You have to pretend you do not care. That their left shoulder is on your hair. You have to remember not to share Anything while you are in the air. I once sat by a sweet girl named Addy On way to see her run-away Daddy. No one had told her these silly rules. We talked and laughed like two best friend fools. What is a stranger? She wanted to know. I did not know which direction to go. If I said it wrong, our talking would stop. She was making easy my little hop.

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Michelle Faulkner

Date: 2/1/2019 3:01:00 PM

I remember, once I sat next to a boy about ten years old, very friendly and chatty, we played a game of cards, then when the plane landed I got off, but he was staying on to the next stop, and he asked me, 'Will I ever see you again?' and I said, gently, 'Probably not' then he said, 'OK, bye since I'm not going to see you again!' Sorry this is kinda long but thought you might like the story!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/1/2019 8:39:00 PM

It broke your heart a little too, didn't it? It broke mine to leave Addy, and her mother and her grandmother who was sitting in another seat way in the back.

Gershon Wolf

Date: 1/31/2019 10:20:00 PM

Caren, you and I are two Gemini peas in a pod, or s/t like that. I honestly strike up a conversation with everyone I sit next to on a plane, and it's always been so worthwhile... Once I even found a great periodontist that way!! He did a great job repairing my then-diseased gums a month later. He had an office in Skokie, IL, about 6 miles from my home in West Rogers Park, Chicago. Another time I discovered a future employer of mine...And on and on...and on... ~ Gershon

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/1/2019 6:07:00 AM

Whoa! Skokie! I have been to Skokie and conquered Skokie. Hahahaha It is amazing what you can learn and who you can know when you make a little effort. Surely all of those souls sleeping are missing out on people they are supposed to meet. Right?

Mahtab Bangalee

Date: 1/31/2019 10:15:00 PM

If I'm unsocial, I've no mutual mind, I've introvert; then the entire world will feel like a STRANGER to me!//// nice philosophy

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/1/2019 6:08:00 AM

Thank you. I am so social it is incredibly silly sometimes, and still I persist. I said "Hello" to every New Yorker for about an hour one day on a New Yorker street. They began crossing the road, and still I kept on.