So what are better icebreaker questions? I admit I often ask these types of questions in social situations with new people, but usually I get very little back.
I ask those questions too, especially when I’m not fully present. It goes better when I ask something less abstract that refers to our shared situation (location, unusual weather, the food if we’re eating, the show if that’s where we’re at).
I’ve checked info I wasn’t fully sure of at train stations with strangers. I had good conversations sometimes because they followed up with something else or offered to let me know when my stop was coming up.
Best thing really is to actually be interested rather than scripted. Or to get there ASAP after the ice breaker.
How are you? —> I’m good.
What do you do for fun? —> I SAID IM GOOD. GAWDDAMN.
Are you superman? Because you do good.
Real >~<
“What do you do for a living?”
“Oh, you’re one of THOSE people.”
“What do you do for fun?”
“I avoid these kinds of situations”
“When was the last time you showered?”
“What are you doing in my house?”
Geez, lay off me, I don’t have all the answers!?!
Lol so last night I went to a little activist potluck, hadn’t really been active myself in a while. I’m an electrician and an anarchist/atheist in the South so I’m SO USED to completely masking myself off when people small talk with me, and here I was around people I could actually be honest with and actually cared!
“How’ve you been?”
“Oh g- actually it kinda sucks out there rn”
Constantly in a room with the two guys who tell only truth and only lies, getting grilled on what I think about this weather.
Match with someone on dating app
They ask how I’m doing
OKAY I GUESS WE’RE GOING TO BE SINGLE FOR ANOTHER 7 MONTHS
