Comment by kylehotchkiss
3 years ago
> you’ve become basically unapproachable for anyone around you
Oh! you're not the captive audience of a strangers unwanted small talk then? That's been an undesirable part of traveling solo for a lot of people. The shoulder tap will still work fine if you need to get past somebody to stand up.
So I guess yeah small talk is normally bad and uninteresting, but essentially putting a blind fold on? People are that selective about who they’ll even consider socializing with?
To be fair I’m not regularly on planes/trains so maybe I’m just not annoyed enough by it.
> but essentially putting a blind fold on?
Literal blindfolds are standard travel gadgets though
Not everyone wants to "socialise" with random people.
I have a set amount of hours I can be social every day, I prefer to use those towards the people I care about. Not someone who's bored on a flight and wants to chat.