Condensed version: Someone new I just met appeared to find me interesting to talk to... and other stuff.
Normal version:
I went into town today which I don't get to do more than once or twice a month currently. My mother had a training thing for a job to attend to in town, so I went with, and she dropped me off at a music store while she did her thing. I ended up selling a couple things I wanted to get rid of and didn't feel cheated so that made me happy. Then I asked their guitar tech for an estimate on work I need done to my Gibson Les Paul... which it was a new guy and he was quite friendly and informative to talk to, so that was good. The old tech was a total jerk face who I didn't like at all, so never felt comfortable doing much more than saying what I needed done and paying him to do it... so the new guy was much more pleasant to speak to.
I realized I had done everything I had gone there to do and my mother wouldn't be done with her training thing for about an hour and a half, so I started wandering and getting bored.
I shortly after wandering for a few minutes, for some reason decided to step about a mile out of my comfort zone and went back to strike conversation with the guitar tech, and we talked for about an hour about music, guitar specs, guitar types, and repair work... when I asked him early into the conversation if me speaking to him was going to get him in trouble, he said not to worry about it as, as long as he was working as he was while we spoke, management didn't care if he was speaking to customers. That is when I sensed he found speaking to me to be entertaining, as I found him to be, so I suspect that sentiment was mutual... since he could have shooed me off by saying it could get him in trouble. He referred me to some interesting bands to listen to, gave me advice to save money on the work I wanted done by advising me to stick with my stock pickups when I expressed wanting to change them out for ceramics, despite it effecting what I'll have to pay him later by about $90, and the strange feeling that I did something I'd normally never be comfortable doing made me happy >_>
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