GUESS
WHO GOT TWO CALLBACKS??
… Not me, but wouldn’t that be fun? I’ve evened out the number of guys and girls that have received cards last week, so decidedly I’ll keep it even from now on with one male and one female per week. I did exactly that this week. The first was a male that I always see with headphones, but never with people. This may have been the first time I’ve seen him without headphones, so I had to seize the opportunity when it came along. Pretty standard response; nodded politely while avoiding eye contact, ignored the obvious questions about what the hell I was even doing talking to him, said “thank you for this,” and left. Yeah, I don’t know why he said “thank you for this” instead of just “thanks,” but perhaps I’m not meant to know these things. Anyway, I’ll be expecting a callback from him when hell freezes over.
I got a better vibe from the female; at least she smiled and kept eye-contact. I won’t jump to conclusions and say she’ll call back, but I feel like there is some correlation between whether or not someone makes eye contact, and whether or not they’ll call me back. The three people so far that have called back had all made healthy eye-contact with me when I first spoke to them. Most of the people that don’t call back will hardly look me in the eye when I give them a card, not to mention they avoid eye contact like the plague if I ever pass them again. In fact, not a single person that opted to ignore me in the first place has looked at me since I gave them a card. HA!
I almost gave a notecard to an adult today, just for novelty’s sake. He’s some guy that sits in Geary Square every now and then, smoking a cigarette and doing a crossword puzzle, and it’s pretty clear that he isn’t a student. I might give him a card just for shits and giggles, but the opportunities to give cards to adults are few and far between, and I don’t want yet another variable (age) to analyze in the end, especially if I don’t have a large sample size for it. Then again, it would be cool to see if he would call back… I don’t know. O humble reader, what think you?
… Not me, but wouldn’t that be fun? I’ve evened out the number of guys and girls that have received cards last week, so decidedly I’ll keep it even from now on with one male and one female per week. I did exactly that this week. The first was a male that I always see with headphones, but never with people. This may have been the first time I’ve seen him without headphones, so I had to seize the opportunity when it came along. Pretty standard response; nodded politely while avoiding eye contact, ignored the obvious questions about what the hell I was even doing talking to him, said “thank you for this,” and left. Yeah, I don’t know why he said “thank you for this” instead of just “thanks,” but perhaps I’m not meant to know these things. Anyway, I’ll be expecting a callback from him when hell freezes over.
I got a better vibe from the female; at least she smiled and kept eye-contact. I won’t jump to conclusions and say she’ll call back, but I feel like there is some correlation between whether or not someone makes eye contact, and whether or not they’ll call me back. The three people so far that have called back had all made healthy eye-contact with me when I first spoke to them. Most of the people that don’t call back will hardly look me in the eye when I give them a card, not to mention they avoid eye contact like the plague if I ever pass them again. In fact, not a single person that opted to ignore me in the first place has looked at me since I gave them a card. HA!
I almost gave a notecard to an adult today, just for novelty’s sake. He’s some guy that sits in Geary Square every now and then, smoking a cigarette and doing a crossword puzzle, and it’s pretty clear that he isn’t a student. I might give him a card just for shits and giggles, but the opportunities to give cards to adults are few and far between, and I don’t want yet another variable (age) to analyze in the end, especially if I don’t have a large sample size for it. Then again, it would be cool to see if he would call back… I don’t know. O humble reader, what think you?
I think you need to give cards to more people! I keep telling you lol, not just one person a week. These people are shy and difficult. Start passing them out to more people and see what you get. Trust me ben, I know this stuff =]
ReplyDeleteEye contact is a great thing. Sometimes. Some people might be in the process of thinking about something else when you approached them. It all depends on one's personality
ReplyDeleteI think giving a card to an adult would be a great little experiment. My prediction is that the adults will call you, because they're older than you. But I bet if they got a card from another adult, they'd be less likely to reply. But, these are just predictions, and they're almost impossible to test in the few short weeks left before the end of the semester (YAY!!).
ReplyDeleteI think the question is. Do you really would you have wanted him to call you back? I think from your standpoint, it could be nice to sit down have a smoke with him. It could be a good conversion starter. Older people in my opinion are easier to start a conversion with because you can talk to them about pretty much anything. If it were up to me, I would given the card to the "female" but that is out of pure bias. I have to agree with Sam. Give out more cards man. You gotta see out the expreriment. Rejection only builds character.
ReplyDeleteI would love to give out more cards, but I don't want to get in over my head. Not to mention it's more difficult to hand out cards than you would think-- there aren't many people that are frequently alone, and more than the two or three a week I've been handing out is a little difficult while remaining in the original parameters of the experiment. It's not fear of rejection that holds me back, it's the lack of eligible subjects I run into in a week. I'll try to get more next time, but I can't promise I'll see enough "lonely" people in the next week.
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