Maybe they were from a high-trust society. I've been in places where I accidentally left my wallet out for hours, and when I came back, it was still there
This is one of those anecdotes where I'm so curious about the person's exact phrasing and tone. If I were invited to join a party bus, I would decline the offer like a person with a reasonable self-preservation instinct, and then obsessively mull over whether that's a thing that other people do, because if it weren't a thing that other people do, why did they invite me to do it?
The difference is that if I asked someone about it, I'd be like, "that's not a thing, right?" rather than "is this a typical cultural practice that the hip locals do?"
Maybe they were from a high-trust society. I've been in places where I accidentally left my wallet out for hours, and when I came back, it was still there
This is one of those anecdotes where I'm so curious about the person's exact phrasing and tone. If I were invited to join a party bus, I would decline the offer like a person with a reasonable self-preservation instinct, and then obsessively mull over whether that's a thing that other people do, because if it weren't a thing that other people do, why did they invite me to do it?
The difference is that if I asked someone about it, I'd be like, "that's not a thing, right?" rather than "is this a typical cultural practice that the hip locals do?"
my read was that she really would have done it if i had said it was normal
that's wild