“What do you do in this city?” he asked about 10 minutes after we first met.<\/p>\n
I was driving and he was the fellow passenger. He had leapt to the front seat while my friend sat in the back.<\/p>\n
I wasn’t quite sure what to make of his bold move, but I took that he was curious in starting a conversation with a stranger.<\/p>\n
So I posed the question back to him\u00e2\u20ac\u201d”what do you mean? are you looking to know why I do what I do<\/i> or what I do<\/i>?”<\/p>\n
He explained that he asked because he can often tell what a person is like when they try to cross town. He claimed that there are people who take the main throughfare because they want to people watch. I pointed out that perhaps many are conformists\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat they are uncomfortable with something radically different; perhaps when they discover a shortcut, they may feel uncomfortable and so return to familiarity. We are creatures of habit, I stated.<\/p>\n
Then I returned to the question. In some way unlike most, I challenged the question rather than answering with\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmy job, the general habits of my life. I wanted to know the motivation to give a good answer than the ones that most will give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“What do you do in this city?” he asked about 10 minutes after we first met. I was driving and he was the fellow passenger. He had leapt to the front seat while my friend sat in the back. I … Continue reading