We teach our children not to talk to strangers, but I talk to strangers quite often.
Usually when I am walking at one of the parks, we just nod, or smile,
Or sometimes say, "Hello."
No one wants to infringe on someone else's space, or time.
Sometimes, though, people want to connect.
There is a shy young father I see out walking his baby in the afternoons.
He always smiles sweetly while his baby glares up out of the stroller.
Today he found two other fathers and they began swinging their infants
While they chatted.
Now both he and the baby are smiling.
And the morning clutch of young mothers sitting in the shade has been replaced
By the after lunch group of young fathers.
It makes me wish I had a baby to walk.
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