Why Free Hellos?
Although I've lived on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC for 21 years, I still haven't gotten used to walking past another person, on an empty street, and have them act like I'm invisible. I understand that people can have a lot on their minds and be absorbed in thought. I also understand that some young people have to be cautious about interacting with strangers. But I find too many cases where I'm just confused by the way people act! By my general appearence - I have gray hair - I am classified as an "old man." When another "old man" passes me by and looks blindly ahead like a zombie, I can't easily make sense out of that! The basis for my complaint about the level of interactions I experience from day to day is that it's dystopian. If you made a sci-fi movie about a future where people walk around like zombies and don't have any interactions, that future would be cold and sad. Yet, that's my day to day reality here in DC. I can't ...