Writer's Block: Department of Stereotypes
Nov. 16th, 2008 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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No, I'm not out of ideas for journal entries. However, I did see this in a friends journal and it made me think of something else.
Very often when travelling, someone will ask me for directions or information of some sort. People will single me out to ask me for help. I've had people ask me for directions, ask me to take a photo of them (with their camera), ask me about seat reservations, or just start chatting.
Why me? Do I have some sort of "one who knows the answer" field? I don't even know the answer half the time - with the seat reservation question, it was the first time I'd ever had a reserved train seat myself (and yet I managed to work out the correct answer). I'm not objecting to it particularly, but I do wonder about it. To those who know me: what is it that makes me seem like a good person to ask?
On another thought, how many of you have truely been lost? I don't consider myself to actually be lost unless I don't know the way back to some known location. A good example is a while back when I went for a walk down towards Gosport and back, for no reason other than curosity at what was down that way. I took a few turnings more or less at random at various points, and ended up in typical twisty British roads. However, I never considered myself to be lost, as I always had a rough sense of which route I'd taken and which direction Fareham was in. I've always thought it odd that some people can't keep track of that.
No, I'm not out of ideas for journal entries. However, I did see this in a friends journal and it made me think of something else.
Very often when travelling, someone will ask me for directions or information of some sort. People will single me out to ask me for help. I've had people ask me for directions, ask me to take a photo of them (with their camera), ask me about seat reservations, or just start chatting.
Why me? Do I have some sort of "one who knows the answer" field? I don't even know the answer half the time - with the seat reservation question, it was the first time I'd ever had a reserved train seat myself (and yet I managed to work out the correct answer). I'm not objecting to it particularly, but I do wonder about it. To those who know me: what is it that makes me seem like a good person to ask?
On another thought, how many of you have truely been lost? I don't consider myself to actually be lost unless I don't know the way back to some known location. A good example is a while back when I went for a walk down towards Gosport and back, for no reason other than curosity at what was down that way. I took a few turnings more or less at random at various points, and ended up in typical twisty British roads. However, I never considered myself to be lost, as I always had a rough sense of which route I'd taken and which direction Fareham was in. I've always thought it odd that some people can't keep track of that.
