Have you met anyone interesting lately?

Since I joined Fluther I have met a lot of interesting people. I have also made some lasting friendship. One jelly looks ordinary on the outside but leads an incredibly satisfying life. She can always find a reason to be happy with life in any circumstances. Given her long history of hard childhood, suicidal thought and early marriage, her optimism is a feast.

Yes! A Jamaican man that runs a Jamaican food truck. We talked awhile and I noticed he was drinking a can of something hidden by a koozie. I asked if it were Red Stripe and he just smiled. After another minute or so he gave me my food and a koozie with my very own yum yum drink hidden by the passersby.

@Mimishu1995 -People like that are inspiring. :)

@Coolhandluke – Generous man :)

Oh, I was also generous with a tip, and a new friend. One love!

Had a beer with this guy not too long ago. He’s pretty interesting. Good guy.

@josie That is interesting :)

Sadly, no.

@cookieman on the flip side, you are an interesting person. You are the first and only person in a long family line to be aware of the family problem and seek help. I find it very interesting because people generally just follow what they were taught in childhood. You can be inspring to a lot of people.

@Mimishu1995: Awww, you say the nicest things a mobster has ever said to me.

I meet interesting people almost every day living in a large city. Boring people don’t live in the city center. Everyone has a story to tell if you are willing to listen. Often times they will tell you when you aren’t willing to listen.

@Stache)-:

^Don’t frown. I didn’t mean to imply anyone who doesn’t live in a city is boring. I was only saying people who live in city centers aren’t boring. :)

All the time.

I’ve been to a few lectures given by Mark Welton. He lives where I live. He was a JAG lawyer and professor at West Point. He’s done a few discussion on the Middle East and Constitutional Law. https://www.westpoint.edu/law/profile/mark_welton It’s usually in a room of about 12 to 18 tables (4 to a table). We all get to ask questions and discuss.

The husband of a close friend of mine worked for a prison in New Jersey. He started an agricultural project that was very successful. The prisoners farmed the land and they had tilapia tanks also. He basically created the whole thing and I guess the state supported the idea.

I’ve met people who worked for the CIA, one gave a presentation of slides of the CIA museum and had stories to tell about the items.

A retired lawyer here has taught me a ton about Supreme Court decisions and the law.

I live in a retirement community. People all around me with a lifetime of experiences and careers. Careers are usually something we discover about each other after the fact. We get to know each other doing fun activities and it’s crazy when you find out the Zumba teacher used to be a university professor, or the guy working at the rec center plays guitar and played and traveled with a couple of very famous rock bands. He performs with a group here where I live too.

One guy I know from zumba, also loves to polka, and he started doing glass fusion crafts, and he and his wife go to lots of parties and post fun photos of their grandkids. Turns out he is an engineering, I had no idea. He helped build some famous buildings in the country. He still does work testifying as an expert witness.

@JLeslie—It sounds like you live in a very interesting, fun community!
I once met a man while refinishing boat parts in my driveway. He knew what they were from as he used to work for Chris Craft as a young man.
He eventually became a naval architect and retired in my town.Sometimes when ships would pass by, they’d sound their horn in homage to him.
I’ve always wanted to take him out for a boat ride but didn’t finish it in time as he passed away.
Years later, I was looking at a wooden boat magazine and I saw one of his boat plans for sale.
I think it’s nice that his ideas live on :)

Not for quite some time.

@lucillelucillelucille Awesome! Yeah, it’s amazing being around people with so many varied backgrounds. It’s also awesome that it’s sort of a level playing field here, there are people who live in mobile homes and people who own million dollar homes all interacting, and no way to know someone’s social class really, not at first anyway. We’re all in casual clothes at all the same events and swimming pools, and former career doesn’t come up much. Plus, people here own a house for $180k and you might not realize they have 3 other homes around the world.

One of my girlfriends here was written up in the UK for her success with her business. First woman something or other back when she was acknowledged. She’s sold the stores now, but since has purchased more commercial property and owns some take away restaurants, plus some residential rental properties. She’s quite amazing. You meet her and she’s a petite thing, looks 40 yers old, but she’s mid 50’s. You most likely would meet her line dancing. Lol. She loves that here in America. She probably thinks our whole country dances all of the time every day.

She had been forced to marry her first husband in an arranged marriage, and he was abusive. Had 3 children with him, the children are adults now. She finally got out after many years, and her family vehemently disapproved of the divorce. Amazing what she accomplished in such adversity. She’s here only part-time. She still lives in the UK.

@JLeslie-People like that woman are something else! My sister knows someone similar who got out of her pre arranged marriage and became a successful antique dealer.
It’s interesting what people can overcome.

I just attempted to post a question by going to the upper right hand bar. Forgive me, I’m quite new to Fluther so somewhere I messed up. The question just disappeared. But I did get to this similar question. My question was ‘what ‘elders’ have you met, and did they in any way influence your life’? I worked for years as a journalist with CBC in Canada, where I did a lot of interviews, and met a lot of elders.

A few stand out. Noam Chomsky was a wonderful handful, he’s just so intelligent and demanding. If you weren’t prepared, he’d school you. I remember being pre interviewed by his staff. They ok’d me so I guess I’d done enough homework. I still remember the candies he offered me when we concluded.

On one occasion in LA at the 1972 Primary I got to interview George McGovern, an impressive man. I believe he would have been a president similar to Carter. Simply not tough enough. On that occasion I also met Hunter S. Thompson, a wild man and something of a genius. I spent the night of the Primary drinking with Jack Perkins and Hunter S. It was a hell of an experience.

Now your turn, what special and perhaps inciteful connects have you had?

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