TWO RANDOM CONVERSATIONS I HAD TODAY

I was eating a shortbread cookie and drinking a mango and passion fruit fruit blend (yum!) in the Starbucks inside Borders at Oxford Circus today, minding my own business, reading NME, a music magazine, when people decided to talk to me.

I know. Weird, right?

After I was done with my snack, I cleaned my table off, put the chair up like the Starbucks worker was doing around me, threw away my trash and returned my plate to the barista person.

This grandpa guy came up to me and said: "I just wanted to say.. you're a good girl. Very good girl. Everyone should be like you. People just don't care about others the way you do. Very good girl."

And then, as I was going down the escalator to leave Borders, I did the thing where I pause before getting on because, I mean, it's MOVING STAIRS for goshsakes.. and this group of guys got stuck behind me.. and this was the conversation we had:

One guy: "Uh.. excuse me, do you know what time the store closes?"

Me: "11."

Me (internally): "You're leaving the store, anyway. Why does it matter?!"

That one guy: "Thanks! Hey.. you like music?"

Me: "I'm sorry?"

Guy: "You were reading NME."

Me (internally): "Oh, yeah, you STALKER."

Me: "Oh, yeah. I like music."

Guy: "Well, I'm Alex, nice to meet you. And it's so funny because my friend DAVE here *points to Dave* likes music, 

too."

Me: "Oh, wow, interesting, yeah..."

Alex: "Are you from America?"

Dave: "I love your accent!"

Me (seriously confused): "You love my accent?"

All four guys: "Yeah, OMG, *bunch of chatter that I can't hear because they're all talking at once*"

Me: "Uh.. thanks."

Alex: "So, do you play any instruments?"

Me: "Yeah, piano.. and I just started playing guitar."

Alex: "That's so funny because my friend DAVE here *points to Dave again* plays guitar. He plays at a grade 5 

(whatever that means)." 

Me: "Cool."

Alex: "What kind of music do you like?"

Me: "All kinds."

Dave: "OMG! NO WAY! ME TOO! Like jazz.. I really want to go to New Orleans just to hear jazz live in the streets... 

blahblahblah." 

Me: "Yeah. It's really sad because there's another hurricane down there now. I have to.. go get.. a magazine now.. Bye!"

and then I ran away. 

The guys were not my type, but I still don't believe that even if they were, I would have stayed to talk.. haha..

This is going to make it awfully hard to make friends here :(