You people have friends?

My wife and I are some weird combination of this. She’s a local doctor and we routinely see people that recognize her that she can’t acknowledge first.

After volunteering multiple days in the lunchroom at my kid’s elementary school last year and working in a high school media center this year I’m a bit “that friend” but in a more creepy way because I know everyone’s kids, but not their parents.

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.

I'm "that friend" in this meme

Friend? What is this friend thing?

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.

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.

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

Come on, everyone knows Dave.

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.

I am acquainted with quite a few people in my smallish town (35,000) and it's very hard to go out and not run into at least one person I recognize. I frequent most of the local shops, get to know the owners, get friendly with the clerks. It serves one well to get to know people.

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.

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

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.

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

Lordy yes. I have a friend who's apparently friends with everyone else on the planet earth, he knows everyone from the mayor to the dog catcher to every person in every neighborhood we go into. Wherever we go, people come up to him and greet him and I'm like - uh - I'll just stand her and hold your coke. I feel like the wall flower that hasn't left my apartment in 25 years.

Zach

I are talk gud

My mom and my brother, whenever I went out with them when I was younger, would always greet at least 3 or 4 different people. I was always the weird, edgy, antisocial scarecrow

How did you meet me and my brother? He has friends on every continent, I have like... 2 friends lol

Yeah mostly because i hang out at his neighbour hood (but even if it were mine i am not that popular there and the neighbour hood sucks ass).

I fk'n wish

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.

No

I've been both. Hermit is best

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