Comments on: TKOG Who doesn’t have to explain herself to anyone (but does anyway)

By: Sada

Sada — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:30:16 +0000

If your blog were a movie, this post would be a charming montage of you makin’ friends and gettin’ discounts.

p.s. Your blog should SO be a movie.

p.p.s. Really. I swear that wasn’t the wine talking.

By: Mom

Mom — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:10:44 +0000

Dear, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:14:41 +0000

It was nice to read this. I’m glad to know that explaining one’s idiosyncrasies doesn’t make other people feel uncomfortable and that it is actually kind of endearing.

Once when I was in college, I asked a boy surrounded by vacant desks if anyone was sitting in the vacant desk in front of him. Even though there was clearly no one sitting in that VACANT desk, he was nice and simply said, “no.” But I couldn’t leave it at that and minute or so after sitting down explained why I had asked the question–it had something to do with a water bottle being sort of near the desk. He chuckled and now five years later, we’re married.*

*OK, so we’re not married, but everything I wrote before that was true.

By: That Kind of Girl

That Kind of Girl — Sat, 01 May 2010 12:33:30 +0000

Oh man, I so wish that were the case! Alas, this guy is miles and miles out of my league.

By: FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com

FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com — Sat, 01 May 2010 12:13:25 +0000

You were just being super nice, appreciative and sweet. Complimenting or smiling at people, totally makes their day & makes them want to make yours.

By: charlene

charlene — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:12:52 +0000

I think the pizza slingslanger might be sweet on you…..I think you should ask him out…or are you Not TKOG? Come on….I would but, Boston is a little far for me to drive for a date.

By: That Kind of Girl

That Kind of Girl — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:59:52 +0000

That sounds like a completely lovely day! It helps that you’re one of the all-time charming guys in the universe — but it’s so nice to just take a few extra seconds and interact pleasantly with strangers for no reason! People appreciate it! Baked goods are frequently thematized!

Also, for the edification of the NTKOG-reading public: I’m seeing Muscles’s play in Brooklyn on May 7, 2010, and YOU PROBABLY SHOULD AS WELL. We can get a drinky-drink afterwards. It will be magical.

By: Muscles

Muscles — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:55:50 +0000

This post totally jives with me today. I was out flyering stores for my play (yeah, I’m gonna link it like it’s my job, cause it’s my job: http://kck.st/cz7pPJ) and I got totally absorbed in mini-convos with a variety of store owners. A group of 5 ladies working at a battered women’s shelter loved my accent, I told a flowershop owner how much I liked her store, and she sent me to a mini-cupcake place where they gave me a free cupcake and offered to possibly co-sponsor one of the performances. I almost never interact with random strangers, and just like this post, the interaction sounds awkward in your head before you start, but you just do it and discover how interesting strangers can be.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:13:40 +0000

“holla! (challah?)”

And that, right there, my dear, is why I am absolutely in love with you and your blog.

By: That Kind of Girl

That Kind of Girl — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:27:11 +0000

Oooh, recently I was stuck sitting next to a gross undergrad PDA couple. She was sitting on his lap and I think they might have been having a nasty fight slash maybe pregnancy scare, because he kept hissing stuff at her like: “I’m going to punch you in your sleep. I’m going to push you down the fucking stairs.”

But then out of nowhere they started making out like crazy. They were so into it, in fact, that after about thirty seconds she somehow shifted halfway onto my lap and I was awkwardly pinned intra-make-out ’til the next stop.