After meeting friends @ Barnes & Noble over my lunch I decided to wander over to the CDs/DVDs. While checking out what all television shows are deemed boxset worthy, a guy about my age came up to me.
"Excuse Me." He said with a European accent.
I looked up, ready for a pitch or something in general not good. Because this is what New York has done to me - if a stranger approaches you, more often than not it won't be good.
"Yeah." I said, laced with attitude.
"Oh, well I don't...I just wanted to wish you a nice day."
"Oh!" Then of course I felt bad...but flickered on the thought that it may be a bait and switch.
He told me that he had just gotten to NYC and I said that was exciting. I asked if he had just moved or was visiting. He told me he'd be in the city for 6 more days and he was seeing all the sites - then made a joke about how great the B&N was. I suggested the sites around Rockefeller and then he said he should have been writing them down, that I was very nice and once again wished me a nice day.
Then he walked away.
The experience certainly was a head tilter. I wonder if he was just wandering the city doing that to others, too.
Curious, indeed.
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He thought you were hot Nora, duh!
I think he was either a) a writer or someone putting together a piece of the "niceness" of random people... and you passed with flying colors! Or b) he was really just a nice guy, seeing the sites and meeting the people... perhaps you changed his whole perception of American people, Nora!
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