# What would a total stranger comment on/ask you about?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 11, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-total-stranger-comment-on-ask-you-about/962681 "2022-04-11T19:31:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-total-stranger-comment-on-ask-you-about/962681/122 "2022-04-17T16:50:29Z")

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> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#):
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> Once I hit my 60s this wasn’t so much of a problem but throughout my life starting in my early teens I was always assumed to be a tough guy or a boxer or a mobster.

Did you look more like Abe Vigoda or Vin Deisel?

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**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-total-stranger-comment-on-ask-you-about/962681/123 "2022-04-18T13:14:47Z")

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> [@chela](#):
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> Me? I get random elderly women in the grocery store striking up conversations and sometimes getting personal. Makes me sad for missing my folks so I have a tender spot for those lonely gals. I must remind them of a Daughter I think.

Ha! This reminds me of my EMT days. There was a woman on my crew who was absolutely tiny. She would call everyone “dear” and had this maternal way about her, and our elderly patients always adored her. I, on the other hand, have a curvier figure and a more aloof demeanor. The elderly didn’t typically warm up to me, but our drunk male patients loved me. They would prefer to talk to me or let me touch them, rather than anyone else on the call – particularly a male crew member.

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**Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-total-stranger-comment-on-ask-you-about/962681/124 "2022-04-19T00:54:27Z")

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I get comments on my voice. Examples: “Do you work at NPR?” and similar remarks. I tell them no, and don’t mention that I’ve done voice-over work, and lots of vocal music. And I’ve done Barry White imitations in private at times for fun. But those are not with strangers.

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**Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-total-stranger-comment-on-ask-you-about/962681/125 "2022-04-19T13:29:58Z")

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“Man, you sound like you should be in radio.”

I get that ALL the time. From random strangers at places like sandwich shops, grocery stores, the DMV, you name it.

I apparently sound vaguely like a younger, less dorky(?) Bob Phillips from Texas Country Reporter, although I don’t hear it myself.

Oh, and I’m tall enough at 6’1" and apparently approachable looking enough that I get asked to get stuff off of high shelves at retail stores surprisingly regularly.

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