strangers calling you out

[bails0bub]

Last night while on the bus to go to work, a drunk 20 something year old was the only other person on the bus, he was dressed in Astros merchandise and immediately started talking to me about baseball and how "we" won, I politely told him that I don't care much for sports but that I knew that the team had one, he cut me off mid-sentence to tell me "look man you are obviously an outsider type (expletive words), but you are a part of this community whether you like it or not" he then tried to get me to go to a bar.
he wasn't being mean or anything (at least I think) but it had me taken back

I'm now not sure if I'm just terrible at pretending to be an nt or if this drunk unassuming guy is just really intuitive.

anyone else have anything like this ever happen?

 

[Ragnahawk]

Last night while on the bus to go to work, a drunk 20 something year old was the only other person on the bus, he was dressed in Astros merchandise and immediately started talking to me about baseball and how "we" won, I politely told him that I don't care much for sports but that I knew that the team had one, he cut me off mid-sentence to tell me "look man you are obviously an outsider type (expletive words), but you are a part of this community whether you like it or not" he then tried to get me to go to a bar.
he wasn't being mean or anything (at least I think) but it had me taken back

I'm now not sure if I'm just terrible at pretending to be an nt or if this drunk unassuming guy is just really intuitive.

anyone else have anything like this ever happen?

That's what you get when you have people that trust their intuition. Intuition is a very powerful tool, so something like this is extraordinarily easy for me.

 

[Streetwise]

Last night while on the bus to go to work, a drunk 20 something year old was the only other person on the bus, he was dressed in Astros merchandise and immediately started talking to me about baseball and how "we" won, I politely told him that I don't care much for sports but that I knew that the team had one, he cut me off mid-sentence to tell me "look man you are obviously an outsider type (expletive words), but you are a part of this community whether you like it or not" he then tried to get me to go to a bar.
he wasn't being mean or anything (at least I think) but it had me taken back

I'm now not sure if I'm just terrible at pretending to be an nt or if this drunk unassuming guy is just really intuitive.

anyone else have anything like this ever happen?

You were too honest be careful talking to people who are drunk they've lost their inhibitions

 

[AGXStarseed]

Maybe it was because you said you didn't care for sports, since for most people sport is a big deal and a major part of their lives.
In my opinion, it's kind of like when you're in school and most of the 'popular' kids are the ones who are good or at least decent at sport, while the outsiders generally aren't so good and prefer to be doing something else. Maybe he just picked up on that despite his drunken state and brought it up?

 

[dragoncat16]

Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't take too much stock in what some drunk guy in weird clothes says.

Perhaps the difference between us and NTs is that we would tend to let something like this really bother us, whereas NTs have the confidence to let it wash over them like water off a duck's back. Over the years, I have learned to be more of a duck, so I think that I would have already forgotten about it once the bus reached my stop.

I probably wouldn't have responded to the guy in the first place, or just smiled and waved to satisfy his need for a response when he feels the need to accost strangers on a bus (by doing that, he had already set himself apart as weird, no matter how much of an "outsider" he thinks you are). I wouldn't have felt obligated to tell him about my level of interest (or lack thereof) in his sport. I think your honesty is probably what he reacted to.

Again, he's a drunk guy in weird clothes so who cares what he thinks anyway?

 

[Ambi]

Last night while on the bus to go to work, a drunk 20 something year old was the only other person on the bus, he was dressed in Astros merchandise and immediately started talking to me about baseball and how "we" won, I politely told him that I don't care much for sports but that I knew that the team had one, he cut me off mid-sentence to tell me "look man you are obviously an outsider type (expletive words), but you are a part of this community whether you like it or not" he then tried to get me to go to a bar.
he wasn't being mean or anything (at least I think) but it had me taken back

I'm now not sure if I'm just terrible at pretending to be an nt or if this drunk unassuming guy is just really intuitive.

anyone else have anything like this ever happen?

An old man yelled out repeatedly at me that I had an evil looking angry face.

 

[Bolletje]

A dude in a bar once told me it was very rude of me to stare at him. When I closed my eyes he started muttering angrily that I wasn't fooling him, he could still see all my other eyes staring at him.
With which I want to agree with what the rest said: don't worry too much about what drunk strangers say

(Plot twist: I'm actually a spider in human disguise)

 

[bails0bub]

You were too honest be careful talking to people who are drunk they've lost their inhibitions

I've been recently trying on not being "too honest" with people on what I think...it's kinda hard, I don't see why someone would ask a question and not want the actual answer, it makes the communication useless. although in this instance I see its validity.

Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't take too much stock in what some drunk guy in weird clothes says.

you are probably right. I guess I need to work on that as well.

 

[OkRad]

I can handle drunk NTs way better than non drunk, as long as they are not in my home and stuff. I mean the random drunk NT vs the regular old NT.

You can blow it off because he is like that to EVERYONE whereas regular sober NTs sniff US out and target us. I hate that.

 

[Judge]

Sadly professional sporting events seem to universally bring out the best- and the worst in people. With alcohol tending to color the equation the most.

Observations made while working in downtown San Francisco in 1982, 1985, 1989 and 1990 having to negotiate the crowds and parades for Super Bowl Winners San Francisco Forty-Niners.

And then of course I once made the error of attending a Raiders-Forty-Niners game at Kezar Stadium. I hardly got a chance to even watch the game. Too busy watching for bottles hurled above my head.

At times it was fun. And not-so-fun...

 

[fairy_girl]

I get the hell out of the way when confronted with people that are drunk. It's best not to say anything and to get away from them, if not then go somewhere and make sure that they are not following you. In this day and age everyone carries a gun or a knife, it's not worth the risk.

 

[OrSomething]

Once when I was walking home from the library, a woman told me to keep my head up because looking down made me look like a "victim". Then she commented on my zits.

 

[SchrodingersMeerkat]

I just say, "Oh? That's nice." Then go on my way or ignore the person. I only talk to people when I have to and I'm more of an answer questions person than a conversationalist. There's also only a total of two or three people I fully trust in this world anyway.