How to Meet People in a New City - Quarter Mile

Home • Subscribe • Contact • Writing Club • Questions * * * How to Meet People in a New City So there you are. It’s six in the evening and you are sat at the longstanding bar you read about on the long flight over. You’re drinking a vermouth or something equally sophisticated. The Murakami you bought at the airport is out, and boy, are you looking mysterious. You’re glancing up at a stranger every so often. Hoping to catch somebody’s eye. Doing your best Bourdain. Thinking maybe he’d be proud. Really, things are great. You’re in a new city, damn it! There are new streets and new faces and new bars, like this one. It’s all breathtaking and novel and, hell, maybe you’ll settle down here. You have just one problem, though, and well, it’s sort of a big one. You don’t know anybody here. There’s a certain awkwardness about trying to meet people. Part of it is that, as humans, we are supposed to know people already. Even as a little kid in elementary school, one of the first thing

Home • Subscribe • Contact • Writing Club • Questions * * * How to Meet People in a New City So there you are. It’s six in the evening and you are sat at the longstanding bar you read about on the long flight over. You’re drinking a vermouth or something equally sophisticated. The Murakami you bought at the airport is out, and boy, are you looking mysterious. You’re glancing up at a stranger every so often. Hoping to catch somebody’s eye. Doing your best Bourdain. Thinking maybe he’d be proud. Really, things are great. You’re in a new city, damn it! There are new streets and new faces and new