Do You Get Stopped Often by Strangers Who Ask Questions?

Yep, happens all the time. And 90% of the time, I have on an iPod when walking or shopping and people will wave to me to get my attention to ask directions or whatever. I always wondered if it was "just me". We must seem approachable, though I wouldn't mind if some rich, handsome men thought that!

It happens to me more often than not...Just chalk it up to the fact that you are noticeable and people "trust" you at face value. :)

Has always happened to me and still happens. It also happens to my husband and daughter. I think we walk like we know where we are going and are usually smiling and looking up.

I open doors for each person that I come cross men or women, I will take a basket so someone will not have to deal with it.. I look happy at babies and children, I nod at the elderly. I speak to the check out person and thank them as well as the person that bags my groceries. I thank all sales people that assist me and all food service people.

Have you ever walked behind people that look lost and are in the way.. People that walk down the center of the parking lot or aisles instead of the right side of the aisle?I am going to guess they never get asked questions..

But the people that have bright eyes, are walking with heads up , who have a good variety of items in their basket are the people I ask assistance from. I am always happy to help, because I am willing to ask for help or suggestions when I need it.

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No...LOL You must have a sweet vibe about you that makes people feel safe! =) Do your friends, family and aquaintences confide in you?

I so feel you! This happens to me too. I must look like I know where the canned corn is, because that was the last one (just this morning!) Last weekend, we were an an amusement park, and I was waiting for my family to come off a water ride (I don't do those) and a woman standing with her teen daughter told me that they did not go on because her daughter was on her period...not sure why I needed to know, but I guess I did!

Just smile. You must look like you want to know!

M.

I have had this happen to me. Not always as you describe, but often. Since I believe in being kind to others and helping as much as possible, I find this an opportunity.
I've seen women struggling to place a huge bag of dogfood in a shopping cart and have volunteered to help. I tend to open doors for ladies and the handicapped. I have been in stores and been dressed in my work clothes (Long sleeved white shirt and dress tie) and been asked for assistance finding something in the store. I didn't tell them I didn't work there, but simply told them where to find it or took them to where I had seen it. Then I tell them I didn't work there.

I've been asked for directions, where a certain food item was, how to tell if a canteloupe is ripe, and numerous other things. I always try to help if I can. If I am on the freeway and see someone is in a hurry, I try and make it where they can pass me, if possible. I've taken time out of my Christmas vacation to use a tow rope to pull a motorist and his family out of a snow bank so they could go on their way. (It was around midnight and I was the only one on the road. Most of the others out were in a ditch.)

I like to play Santa Claus at Christmas and am growing my own beard this year. I have been asked to play Santa Claus for the 6th year in a row.

One of the men I admire most, owned a greeting card company. He was bought out by Halmark or the like. He gave a huge farewell bonus to his employees and made sure they still had a job at the new company. He then put $100 bills in plain white envelopes and handed them out to those in need or having a string of bad luck. He did that for several years befor he died. He lived in or around Kansas City. If I ever become rich I'd do that.

Good luck to you and yours.

You must look really nice and friendly.

I guess you are just appear to be very approachable. That's nice but, at the same time very annoying, I'm sure. I do have people approaching me a lot and asking questions and maybe on occassion they would go into their whole life story but, for the most part, that usually doesn't happen unless we have a more prolonged conversation or maybe over the course of a couple of meetings.

I think maybe, if you are feeling like this is getting to be too much of a drain or is burdensome, you may want to take a look at your body language to see if there is something that needs to be altered, smile and little less and try not to make eye contact.

Yes, I am sorry to say! :) One day I was shopping for a bathtub at Lowes and some lady told me her dream house plans and how no one in her family approved of the land she bought.......after a half hour I finally excused myself.
Happens to me almost every day! Try wearing a ski mask :)

It happens to me as well. Mostly men asking where something might be in the grocery store, etc. I've had many cashiers ask me how to cook whatever I was buying.

My last one was at the grocery store today while I was getting a box of wine. A man asked me why I chose that wine over the other brands.

Yes! And it is odd. I have had many a man ask me what I think he should get for his wife or mother around mother's day. I've had people ask what alcohol I would recommend (and I am so not a big drinker). And I have had cashiers ask how to cook an item I am purchasing.

that always happens to me in spanish! i dont speak spanish, but i guess i look like i should. U must have an approachable face. if u looked around and said who am i gonna ask this, that will answer me correctly....U!

M.,

People who I don’t know or have ever seen sit next to me or come up to me in a number of venues and just pour out there soul to me. You are also one of those people! It use to sort of weird me out, but now I accept it as a gift. I help when I can and when I cannot I say I’m sorry I just don’t know perhaps you should contact _________?

Blessings…..

It doesn't happen to me, but it happens to my husband ALL the time. In fact, I just mentioned this to him the other day. He said it was because he always looks people in the eye. So, I did a little experiment...and he is right! I usually try to avoid people when I am out (that sounds terrible, I am a people person...but when I'm on a mission, I just want to get it done) so I made it a point to make eye contact. Nearly every person either gave a smile, a simple "hello", or some sort of small talk.

I would take it as a compliment, you must come off as very approachable!

My thought is that, in this cold/impersonal/techno/often cruel world, there are still people who are friendly and open. My guess is that you have a friendly, approachable demeanor. You are blessed, Dear! Maybe you should go into sales!

Definitely! I think it is because I am middle-aged, pudgy and have that brown pageboy which Sally Field sported in "Steel Magnolias," - the one they called "helmet hair." In short, I look like everybody's mother, and since I have olive skin and dark eyes I am ethnicly ambiguous enough that most people are comfortable with me. Does this describe you? You might be a younger or older version but some of us just have sort of universal looks, making a wide variety of people view us as one of their own.

Yes, this happens to me. I have had people tell me personal things about their health and lift their shirt and show me their scab on their belly!!! People have asked me to help them pick out things at the store. And, I have been asked how to cook certain items. Once while sitting in the waiting room at my gyn office a woman told me the mental health history of her family, what anti-psycotic meds who was on and all about the little pimple way down by her pubic area (where she could not see) but she could feel. Yeah, I get to hear lots of lovely information from strangers when I am out minding my own business. I think I just might somehow invite the conversations, maby I make too much eye contact, maby looking down would stop this, I don't know. My friend's call me a "weirdo magnet".

I am in the same boat as you and my father was the same way! For instance, he could be at Kroger's and decide to get pickles and than all of a sudden five people would end up around him and just starting talking/asking questions. I just think that you must be displaying a positive presence and people are attracted to it.