yeah i get that some times … even my friends look at me funny when i just randomly say hi to people lol :laugh_at:

People stare at me when i say hello. Might be that i usually scream it at em but who knows eh?! :weee:

Yeah, people give me strange looks 😥 but eventually they crack and will start talking.

-Dave

yeah when i’m out n about n pass someone i say “mornin” n they walk away quickly!

I always give a hello/good morning/alright etc to people as I pass them, I can help it but I always refer to old men as Sir…. that does get some funny looks when I am wrapped up my my hoodie etc 😉

I say morning to people, it’s being friendly!

Maybe it’s the way you say it.
Do you say it with a sinister undertone? lol
Maybe they’re just miserable fuckers.

i say ‘by eck lass thas a fit un fancy a bunk up later’ and girls always look at me in shock….

does saing “morning” …. “i’m gonna kill you”(sinister under tone) count? :laugh_at:

LOL round here they look at you funny if you dont say Hi :laugh_at:

i find saying it to people down here gets you funny looks not soo much when im uppp north though but down here i came in earlier today and said hello to the girl who works in the shop under my flat while i was opening the door and she just starred at me like i was from another planet :yakk:

It really depends where you are I find,

where I live I talk to most of my immediate neighbours,

but when I say mornin to randoms I get some funny looks

(esp old people who I thought it’d be nice for but maybe they think I just wanna mug em)

When I lived in a little village in Glostershire it was considered rude if you didnt stop and talk and sometimes it was a pain in the arse if I was rushing off to work ……..or the pub 😉

in Ipswich this is less common (unless its on your street/estate to immediate neighbours). Like most town/city areas there’s a more dispersed and diverse population and many “London incomers” (actually I am probably thought of as one of them) so increasingly the London attitude applies, and since the events of December 2006 and a couple more dodgy incidents (stranger rapes/sexual assaults) young men speaking to “strange women” has become less accepted (or may make the girls/women paranoid) for obvious reasons.

Essex is like London, you keep yourself to yourself (although I haven’t spent much time there other than to get trains out of the place).

However as you get further towards the “proper” bumpkin areas (Mid Suffolk etc) its a lot more common to say hello to strangers and also to greet the people in shops etc…

Also its normal if cycling to wave to other cyclists unless they are obviously training for races etc (i.e wearing dayglo lycra and riding a £1000 carbon fibre frame road bike) in which case they are excused.

This is only because the roadies are so determined on keeping up their pace they are liable to crash if they start waving to randoms (and may be going too fast to see you anyway).