Aside from when it is necessary

Do I talk to strangers?

No, because I'm a New Yorker. I know, I know, you would think that in a city that large it would behoove us to be more friendly, at least say "good morning", that sort of thing. But no, we instead behave very insularly, almost as if afraid of others. I don't know why that is. For the longest time I just accepted it, but then I started going the other way. I made it a point to be friendlier myself. More smiles. More Hello's. That sort of thing. I'm sure a lot of people thought I was nuts or creepy. Oh well.

I may have told this story before on here; but it bears repeating:

One time me and some friends decided that for a goof we would say hello to every girl that passed us on the street corner we were hanging out on. As you can imagine we said hi to a lot of girls, it being a NYC street. In an approximate ten to twenty minute time span only ONE said hello back.

We stopped her and explained what we were doing, and that she was the only one who responded, and without missing a beat she said "That's because I'm from Nebraska."

LOL!