mid 20s | bisexual | programmer | european
he said "It's 2024 and you walk like you don't have a care in the world."
And I didn't say "I have anxiety I care too much about everything" but I did say there were yellow-rumped warblers in the trees and I care about looking at them, and he told me where to find black-crowned herons and a beaver dam.
Anyway go for a walk it's nice out
extremely perfect object lesson in talking to strangers! sometimes it's a little weird but they still might know about birds!
I'm also fairly fem-presenting so when an older guy says anything about my appearance, I'm always ready for it to be creepy, because it often is
But you're right and this isn't the first "guy says opener that could have gone in a bad direction and didn't" situation I've been in
A few months ago an older Uber driver told me "I have a surprise for you but I'll give it to you when we get there" and I was clenching all trip but the surprise was that he burned his own copies of the ABBA greatest hits CD and gave me one because "ABBA makes people happy"
o jeez that really could've been a rough one! but instead, ABBA!
Right? It didn't even matter that I do not have any way to listen to a CD, it still made me happy!
