Thread | Brutkey

it’s common to wonder how to make friends as an adult in the area where you live, but i’m curious about flipping this on it’s head: how and where would someone find you in a disposition open to making a friend? in what situations do you welcome an introduction to a stranger?

@jacquiharper
@jacquiharper@mastodon.world

@chrisamaphone@hci.social Can’t say we’ve moved into the friend categories you described yet, but I’m enjoying the dog park interactions a great deal.

1. My dog is expected to be there
2. Dress code is Expect Muddy Paws
3. Everyone else is there with a dog, so we can converse about each other’s dogs
4. Wildly diverse group of people — PhDs, teachers, mechanics, transit workers — who talk about dogs, not work
5. I leave the house because my dog reminds me his friends are waiting for him

Seamus the doodle is lying on the picnic table at the dog park, because at the dog park dogs are allowed on the table

chris martens
@chrisamaphone@hci.social

@jacquiharper@mastodon.world okay how would you feel if someone without a dog showed up and was friendly with the dogs but also the people? is that weird?? (a dog park just opened up by my house and i like dogs but don’t have one)

@jacquiharper
@jacquiharper@mastodon.world

@chrisamaphone@hci.social This particular dog park requires the dog’s information to get an entry fob (precludes people without dogs from wandering in), but we actually have a guy who walks on the adjacent trail most afternoons and has Milk Bones in his pockets 🦴 When the dogs see him walk by they all race to the fence to say hello 🐕🐕🐩🐕 so now the people do too, though more slowly🚶‍♀️He hands them out on the trail too
(*Of course he asked first, before he started feeding anything to the dogs)