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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 8:13 am
(March 22, 2018 at 7:16 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: Imagine, if you will, a public business you enjoy visiting more than any other place. Now imagine that you frequent the place quite regularly.
Imagine, as you pull into the parking lot, seeing someone sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle. The person appears normal. You go into the business, do your thing, spend an hour or two there, then you leave and still see the person in the passenger seat of the vehicle next to yours. What is your initial thought/judgment of this person?
Now, fast forward a week. Imagine that you have visited your favorite place several times and each time you've seen the vehicle in the parking lot that same person is sitting in the passenger seat. Granted, the vehicle hasn't been there every time you've visited, but just enough to make you think harder. Now what do you think of this person?
Now, fast forward a month. You haven't been able to get enough of your favorite place, and you have continued to see the same vehicle with the same passenger quite regularly. What is going on in your mind? Are you in any way concerned? Will you confront this person?
I'd mainly guess they are waiting on a partner that really likes that business also, while they do not. Unless they were otherwise suspicious, I would not do or say anything. I might try to figure out who their partner is.
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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 9:28 am
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(March 23, 2018 at 1:02 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Hahahahaha! That gif is hilarious!!
With the risk of Mooney hitting me on the spine with a 4 by 4 for finding anything Family Guy related funny, I prefer this one:
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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 12:52 pm
Bet that person thinks you're a filthy stalker....everytime they come to their favorite parking lot...you show up and stare at them.
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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 1:04 pm
So Kit, why did you ask? Are you seeing someone like that, or are YOU that person?
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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 5:00 pm
(March 23, 2018 at 1:04 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: So Kit, why did you ask? Are you seeing someone like that, or are YOU that person?
Going to explain and elaborate in a bit. 
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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 7:13 pm
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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 7:24 pm
Here is what the OP is about:
It is about me. I am the passenger who is sitting in the parking lot, for many hours mind you and several days a week (that is before I got this apartment). After I got off work, I would take the bus to the boyfriend's work place. He did not park his vehicle near his work place, because there was no shade near there, but instead he parked beneath a tree across the plaza and right outside a gym. I would sit there for hours until he got off work. The gym members would see me, and most of them began to take notice of me after a while. No one confronted me, I don't know if the gym members talked to one another about me or informed the gym employees about me, and the cops were never called on me. I figured after a while that maybe I was seeming suspicious to them, but they left me alone.
I created the OP to see what you all would have thought upon seeing someone like me sitting there quite regularly.
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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 7:29 pm
(March 23, 2018 at 7:24 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: Here is what the OP is about:
It is about me. I am the passenger who is sitting in the parking lot, for many hours mind you and several days a week (that is before I got this apartment). After I got off work, I would take the bus to the boyfriend's work place. He did not park his vehicle near his work place, because there was no shade near there, but instead he parked beneath a tree across the plaza and right outside a gym. I would sit there for hours until he got off work. The gym members would see me, and most of them began to take notice of me after a while. No one confronted me, I don't know if the gym members talked to one another about me or informed the gym employees about me, and the cops were never called on me. I figured after a while that maybe I was seeming suspicious to them, but they left me alone.
I created the OP to see what you all would have thought upon seeing someone like me sitting there quite regularly.
I feel I deserve more recognition for my reply so closely resembling what you're actually talking about.
What would you do to occupy your time while you're sat in there?
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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 7:33 pm
(March 23, 2018 at 7:29 pm)paulpablo Wrote: What would you do to occupy your time while you're sat in there?
I had the phone, so I played some games and posted on the forum.
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RE: How would you respond? (A social experiment)
March 23, 2018 at 7:41 pm
(March 23, 2018 at 7:33 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: (March 23, 2018 at 7:29 pm)paulpablo Wrote: What would you do to occupy your time while you're sat in there?
I had the phone, so I played some games and posted on the forum. What a clever Otter you are! Makes me ashamed to be merely a poop flinging knuckle walker.
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