Have you got "one of Those" faces?

[English Lady]

Today it is wet and cold and windy. The sky is various shades of grey and the sun is nowhere in sight.

Anyhow, After picking Bethanny up from school we dropped into the local bakers for some naughty cakes and a sausage roll. The lady behind the counter was a beautiful middle aged lady with bright cheeks and greying hair. She picked out the vanilla slices and cream donut and put them in a box.

As she's parcelling them up she starts chatting to me.

"It's windy out isn't it?"

"Oh yes." I reply smiling

"I've just walked in now and I swear I couldn't feel my face i was that cold and my legs well."

I nod and smile "yes walking into that wind is chilling!"

"I've got no tights on as I can't wear them with these hot flushes." Her eyes look into mine directly, as if we were on intimate terms "And oooh they're cold right up to my knicker line."

Well knock me down with a feather. I smiled and paid and said my cheery goodbyes but I really I was kind of taken back by the hot flushes and knickerline!

My Nanna has always told me that I've got "One of those faces" Meaning that I'm approachable and so people talk to me like they've known me forever.

I find it everywhere I go, bus stops, train stations and walking down the street. Men and women of all ages talk to me about EVERYTHING. And it's increased since having Beth.People talk to me even more now as Beth will talk to anyone *L*

Any how -do you have "one of those" faces? And do you ever write characters who will divulge their hot flushes and knickerlines to strangers? *chuckles*

 

[rgraham666]

Nope. I'm about as approachable as a Klingon with hemorrhoids.

 

[ElizabethWest]

EL, yes you have one of those faces. You can tell just by looking how sweet you are. I would tell you all my secrets! People tend to talk to me about anything too. Don't know why. Because I listen I suppose.

Rob, you're an ass.

 

[Samandiriel]

I have that same problem except most of those people are psychopaths and lunatics.

I stopped going to family reunions.

 

[LadyTemptress]

Yes, I get that all the time also. Not long ago I was in the vitamin aisle and a middle-aged woman from India in her full outfit just comes up to me and grabs my arm. She then holds out a bottle of Horny Goat Weed and asked if I thought she should buy it for her husband. She went on to tell me how she is at the age where she is really wanting more sex and he just isn't keeping up. I was stuck there for at least a full five minutes listening to this woman before I could politely leave.

What really makes me smile now is that I am at the age where I will talk to anyonealso. I used to get so embarressed when my mom did that in the check-out line and now I am just as bad she is.

 

[logophile]

In my Valentine's Day story, the two lovers are stuck in a hot tub with a woman in her 60s who is regaling them with details of her sex life. I wrote it because that shit happens to me all the time. All the Time. Every deep detail of a person's life is fair game, at school, at the grocery, when I'm pumping gas. All the time.

 

[impressive]

You just gotta look like you give a shit ... and people will tell you anything. Fortunately, I can be very, very good at looking like I don't.

 

[logophile]

You just gotta look like you give a shit ... and people will tell you anything. Fortunately, I can be very, very good at looking like I don't.

Lucky you.

 

[R. Richard]

I not only do not have one of "those faces," I have pretty much the opposite.

 

[Sassy Grrl]

I think the key is to make sure you don't smile at anyone. And keep your eyes down. Also, try not to look like you know what you're doing. People glom right on to that.

 

[lil_elvis]

I've got a face made for radio.

 

[English Lady]

rgraham..do Klingons get hemerroids?

EW...*chuckles* thanks...feel free to tell me any and all your secrets


Samandriel -I get every kind of crazy person talk to me. You know the old dears who wander around talking all the time? they always sit/stand next to me and I nod whilst they tell me about their childhood...or similar.

*L* LT that sounds kind of extreme *L*

Logo...yes I remembered that, it added alot of reality to your story

Imp..you're right I think and I always look like I give a shit. I can't help it 'cos I do

R Richard...you have "one of those" bottoms?

Sassy girl, you could do that but ohhow boring life would be if we all looked down at the ground all the time.

Actually,thats a kind of scouse thing. Meeting of eyes is often seen as a challenge so people walk with their eyes fixed on the floor. Lots of bumping into people happens 'cos of it *L*


I love that people can talk to me, however weird and sometimes embarassing it is. Life is never dull*L*

 

[English Lady]

I've got a face made for radio.

It sings?

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

I don't have one of those faces

I don't think I look very forbidding but apparently I am wrong.Most people will smile, blush and look away and that's only after I speak first. That being said, in some respects I wish I looked as approachable as some of the posters here.

Alas, tis not to be...

Luna

 

[Honey123]

Yes, I have one of those faces as well....although people don't tend to tell me sexual secrets and such, they just seem to smile at me...or try and talk to me...

More often than not, I wonder if I have something on my face

 

[BlackShanglan]

You do have that sort of face and expression, EL, and happily you have that sort of kind, warm good nature as well. (Don't worry, I won't start making knicker-related comments to you, unless you ask nicely.) But yes, there are certain people who look approachable. I'd say it's more in the expression than just the physical contours of the face.

Evidently I'm frightening. At least, I've had two or three subordinates confess at a later date that when they first began under me, I scared them. This surprised and at first alarmed me, as I strive to be friendly and welcoming to the new intake. Then they said that I was friendly, but also unnerving. I'm still trying to make heads or tails of this. You don't think it's the hooves, do you?

Shanglan

 

[Honey123]

You do have that sort of face and expression, EL, and happily you have that sort of kind, warm good nature as well. (Don't worry, I won't start making knicker-related comments to you, unless you ask nicely.) But yes, there are certain people who look approachable. I'd say it's more in the expression than just the physical contours of the face.

Evidently I'm frightening. At least, I've had two or three subordinates confess at a later date that when they first began under me, I scared them. This surprised and at first alarmed me, as I strive to be friendly and welcoming to the new intake. Then they said that I was friendly, but also unnerving. I'm still trying to make heads or tails of this. You don't think it's the hooves, do you?

Shanglan

Maybe they are jealous of your glorious mane?

 

[English Lady]

Luna...it's funny how people view you so differently to the way you view yourself isn't it?

Honey...the sexual details will follow I'm sure *L*

Shanglan, they're probably worried you'll charge them, you are a rather large and impressive beast Any you can tell me about your knickers any day love

 

[Belegon]

I feel that I am very friendly, but I apparently can be both open and intimidating in real life.

While many people do feel they can share with me, and I am always being asked if I know where "such and such is" in a store. I do walk around like I know what I am about.

But I have also been told that I have "the Eyes" where I can actually scare people...

 

[DrFreud]

And I thought there'd be a lineup of pictures, and we'd be asked to identify who's who...

I think the "one of those" face thing applies more to women than men. Anyone agree/disagree?

DrF

 

[hmmnmm]

Yes, I get that all the time also. Not long ago I was in the vitamin aisle and a middle-aged woman from India in her full outfit just comes up to me and grabs my arm. She then holds out a bottle of Horny Goat Weed and asked if I thought she should buy it for her husband. She went on to tell me how she is at the age where she is really wanting more sex and he just isn't keeping up. I was stuck there for at least a full five minutes listening to this woman before I could politely leave.

What really makes me smile now is that I am at the age where I will talk to anyonealso. I used to get so embarressed when my mom did that in the check-out line and now I am just as bad she is.

Can I tell you something?

 

[scheherazade_79]

I know how you feel, EL. Trouble is, my encounters sometimes don't stop at conversation. There've been times when I've been involved in some crazy escapades trying to help strangers. The most interesting one was a woman, who approached me in floods of tears at a bus stop. She'd been drinking quite heavily and seemed to have severe learning difficulties. She'd phoned for a taxi to pick her up, but none came; so I decided to walk her into the town centre to where the taxi rank was. All I could get out of her was that her mother would be glad to see her and would pay for the taxi. I gave her a cigarette and she seemed normal for a couple of minutes, before she suddenly had to pee and I had to spend ages looking for a discrete corner for her. When we were walking over the footbridge, she suddenly went into screaming hysterics, because she was scared of it.
I managed to get her into the centre, but when the taxi drivers saw her coming they all locked their doors. Apparently she was notorious for not paying. I had no option in the end, but to call the police.
I've also ended up climbing a tree to get an old lady's hat, which wasn't much fun in a howling gale.
There are times when it sucks to have "one of those faces"

 

[English Lady]

Belegon...I think people must think I look like I know whaere I am too, loads of people ask me for directions. Mostly I can't give'em though *L*


Dr F...I dunno, there are guy's who have those faces, round, smiley, jolly...sort of a SDanta kind of face

Hmmnmm ...well you can tell me anything

 

[BlackShanglan]

I've also ended up climbing a tree to get an old lady's hat, which wasn't much fun in a howling gale.
There are times when it sucks to have "one of those faces"

*chuckle*

I may not have the face, but I do have the conscience, evidently. I ended up wading into the river Garavogue to save a pigeon that fell into it while trying to catch the bread being thrown to swans. This meant wading thigh-deep past said swans, which if you've encountered swans in the wild you will recognize as no very comforting position, especially as they had young and hissed and snapped at the pigeon every time it moved. Fortunately, they seemed to recognize the concept of "idiot human on a bizarre pigeon-related moral crusade" and let me past them. The pigeon, I am happy to say, recovered. Daft little git.

Shanglan

 

[ElizabethWest]

And I thought there'd be a lineup of pictures, and we'd be asked to identify who's who...

I think the "one of those" face thing applies more to women than men. Anyone agree/disagree?

DrF

My soon-to-be-ex has one of those faces. Round and jolly and all crinkly with laugh lines around the eyes. People tell him anything. Course it could be that he has never met a stranger and can talk a blue streak.