Do you do any sports? Tennis&#x2F;golf clubs are great for meeting people. Gyms as well. You can&#x27;t expect to have a new bff in 2 days, but you will meet people from all walks of life and maybe it will click with one or two.<p>As for the talking part, I think people need to be good listeners, but at start, people need to be great storytellers. If you have a story or two about you&#x2F;something, that is funny and you can intrigue people, you can be sure folks will stick around...<p>&#x27;Regarding the recent crime wave, when I was a teenager and I went camping with some friends and we noticed we ran out of toilet paper while one of us was on the can... not having a lot of options, we had to resort to crime... we went around trailers..... etc&#x27;<p>Seems harmless enough, but its a story I tell a lot with a bit more details and pauses, takes about 5 minutes, makes people laugh (we were caught stealing the Toilet paper) and opens up folks.<p>If you have a few funny real stories to tell, you will always find engagement from folks much nicer than &#x27;ohh so what do you do? any kids? etc&#x27; that most people end up doing