cyberdad wrote:
I notice when I post somewhere I feel like a cowboy entering a saloon and the conversation usually ceases like somebody stopped the record player.
If I'm entering a pub that is owned by the Turkish mafia here quite same happens.

The only pubs where they don't even know the name of the beer that they are selling.

But may be that you have to care your personal hygiene only or the rooms that you enter and the way that you do.
Be aware that people for good reasons neither trust nor like everybody and are open towards the ones they immediately like and trust only. But that is a thing that depends on type, style, body language, mood, intentions and the way that sombody is at all and partly also on his companionship.