That’s my wife. Leaving parties is the worst because I love the ol’ Irish Goodbye and she needs to say bye to EVERYONE at the party that she talked to.

Depending on who I am with I could go either way. I’m like an extroverted introvert mutant haha.

This is invariably the case when a person deep in the Introvert side of the scale goes out with a friend far into the opposite side of the same scale, (i.e. an Extrovert).

On the other hand there are situations were it’s the Extrovert friend that feels awkward and the Introvert one that is at home and energized, normally anything to do with figuring out and solving really complex problems and situations rather that casual socializing.

It’s absolutelly normal to feel comparativelly inept next to an expert doing their thing in their expert domain.

I’ve been both. Hermit is best

My mom seems to know everyone on the planet. Grocery shopping with her is the worst because she’ll run into people she knows every single time and spends forever talking to them.

I brew an 8-cup pot every morning. Most days I only drink half of it, a couple of times a week I drink the whole thing. I roast my own from a blend of coffees I spent almost a year nailing down.

I can quit whenever I want lol

Ah, man. I used to have a friend just like this. We’re still friendly these days, I just stopped drinking so I don’t get out until the wee hours anymore.

Seriously we’d walk down the street and every third person he would stop and chat to as if they were lifelong friends… Somehow even after knowing him for years every time it would be people I didn’t recognise. I assume he must have been dealing or something.

Come on, everyone knows Dave.

My friend says I act like this.

I read a book called “how to win friends and influence people” and it completely changed my life for the better once I started taking the book literally.

Everybody tends to be selfish and think of themselves (not in a bad way). If you play into this and learn what people are interested in, you instantly become interesting to that person.

“Hey Ricky, how’s your hot wheels collection! Get any new classics?” True story, different name. That’s just the butcher at the grocery store I frequent. He’ll tell me all about his latest hot wheels collection, and then I get a discount, we both win. I’ve made a friend, and influenced him to give me a deal.

My mom. Grew up in a small town of about 25,000 and my mom was the front office manager for the local orthodontist. Orthodontist was great and even folks from “the big city” went to her. My whole life was going out with my mom and running into people who wanted to talk

I’m kind of that friend because I’ve had a chance to meet and work with a lot of famous people without ever being especially famous or successful myself… but I do have a lot of stories. Both professional and incidental.

For example-

My dog played with Eric Idle’s dog in a park one day. We were the only two people there. We talked about dogs.

This is me with one of my friends, except I also have a high tendency to recognize his friends also, since they’re usually also people from high school, but then they don’t recognize me. I’m a background character dude, it’s kind of awesome.

Yes but both of them are me and the difference is the presence or absence of MDMA

You people have friends?