JJabb wrote:
The other night I went to the grocery store and I saw a nice BMW parked in front of a store a little down the side walk. It was probably four store fronts down. I have seen this car plenty of times but have never seen the owner. I also have to mention I really like BMW's and this was a tuned car at that. Well, that night I saw that it was a man about the same age as I. So I parked my car in front of the grocery store and walked over and flat out asked if I could look at his car. He didn't know how to respond at first and slowly got out of the car. After talking with him about BMW's for a minute or two he loosened up and I said thanks for his time and was on my way.
I told my friend about this and she was amazed. She was impressed that I actually spoke to a stranger but also told me I was lucky I didn't get shot and no one would ever walk up to a person sitting in their car and ask to look at it. I didn't see anything wrong with this since I figured he had a BMW and would share the same general interest as I. But she insisted that it was not a normal thing to do ESPECIALLY since it was 9:30 at night in a parking lot.
So I ask, is what I did a socially normal thing to do?
Maybe my view is more indicative of being brought up in Northern Ireland, but if someone walked up at night and asked to "look" at my car, I would assume it was a carjacking and floor the accelerator!