Getting to Know You
caw-caw-mf: what are we even supposed to talk about?
panther: What do you mean?
caw-caw-mf: the point of this app is to meet strangers and make friends
caw-caw-mf: but how do we become friends?
caw-caw-mf: I mean @widower and I downloaded this because we don’t do good talking face to face with people but I’m starting to realize we are just bad at people in general
redwing: honestly I was wondering the same thing
shes/a/phantom: ^^^
the-mechanic: there’s an option to ask our A.I.s questions in chat, maybe they can help out to get the ball rolling
you-know-who: Good idea.
you-know-who: Jarvis how do we become friends?
Jarvis: Hello Marvel group chat.
Jarvis: I am the first option, make A.I. assistant.
Jarvis: Would you like a conversation starter?
you-know-who: Yes please.
Jarvis: What is your dream job and current job?
you-know-who: My dream job is to be the CEO of a technology company. At the moment I am just working at the one my father owns.
redwing: I just finished my degree in psychology, so the dream is to be a therapist
redwing: I went into the military right after high school but was sent home early after an accident
Merica: I was in the military out of high school too.
Merica: Still am actually.
redwing: which part of the military?
Metica: Army. You?
redwing: Air Force.
you-know-who: My best friend is an Air Force pilot. Maybe you knew him.
redwing: might have
panther: I served my country as well. When my father died, @NotAFury and my mother made me stop. My new dream is to work in politics and make the world a better place for black youth.
NotAFury: I share my brother’s dream minus the political part
NotAFury: I want to work with technology to make the world better
caw-caw-mf: I used to be a carny, but that... was a dark time in my life
caw-caw-mf: @widower and I are on our way to our dream jobs of secret service agents
panther: What are you doing now?
caw-caw-mf: just normal security wherever they will hire us
widower: we got through the police academy while living in America, and we have both worked in Russia, the UK and Hungary
shes/a/phantom: as I said yesterday, I’m 18
shes/a/phantom: despite that, I’ve already completed police academy and am working as a deputy officer
caw-caw-mf: do you enjoy it?
shes/a/phantom: not in the slightest bit
shes/a/phantom: I want to play in a band, but my dad worries I will end up starving on the streets if I do music full time
Mary_Jane: I want to be a singer so I get that
you-know-who: @the-mechanic, are you really a mechanic?
the-mechanic: nah but my dad was
the-mechanic: and my uncle
the-mechanic: and my grandpa
Mary_Jane: family business?
the-mechanic: pretty much
the-mechanic: no one else in town knows how to fix a car besides my family since my great grandpa was the only one in town to ever go to school for it
the-mechanic: over the years the knowledge is passed down to the males in the family so that no one in town has to go to college
redwing: and you don’t want to be a mechanic?
the-mechanic: no
the-mechanic: after my dad left I swore I would never be anything like him
the-mechanic: plus a nice lady coming through town once told me I have good potential in tech and a public speaking position
Merica: So what’s the dream then?
the-mechanic: graduate high school and get into a college far from this fucking town
the-mechanic: nothing really planned, but I’ll most likely take that lady’s advice
Merica: It is totally okay to not have a plan, I didn’t have one at first.
winter-is-coming: is that why you joined the army right out of high school?
Merica: No. I felt like I had a duty to serve my country.
winter-is-coming: well that was a bad choice
Merics: How dare you?
winter-is-coming: I lost my arm in a fucking pointless battle
winter-is-coming: I thought I had the same duty to serve my country, but when I came back home I ended up homeless and starving because my country didn’t want an amputee with PTSD
winter-is-coming: I moved back to the country I was a POW in and got a job in security
winter-is-coming: so sorry if I don’thave patriotism for the old red white and blue
Merica: I am so sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you at all.
Merica: I honestly don’t stand for the America you faced. I stand for the original ideas of freedom and liberty for all, no exceptions.
redwing: @winter-is-coming, this is a safe place for you man, I get it
redwing: my best friend died while I was in the Air Force in the same plane as me
redwing: they meant everything to me, and all I got was an urn and a letter sending me home to my ma
you-know-who: My best friend almost died in a crash too.
you-know-who: He got out alive, but waist down was completely paralyzed.
you-know-who: I managed to design robotic legs for him. My dad’s last act alive was actually funding the project.
panther: @NotAFury and my father died in war. As did our uncle and cousin. I almost died during my last year with my country’s military, hence why my mother and sister were so eager for me to get a new job.
you-know-who: It’s been a few minutes sense anyone texted.
you-know-who: Anyone like @the-mechanic with no plans?
pooltable: I am the queen of having no clue what I want to do with my life
pooltable: I work for a fast food place and don’t attend college
Scarlet_Honey: I’m a Jewish Roma in a war zone. There isn’t much I can do with my life besides getting helicoptered by my twin brother.
winter-is-coming: by Roma do you mean you’re Romanian or a gypsy
Scarlet_Honey: Gypsy is a very rude term, but yes, I was raised a Gypsy.
Scarlet_Honey: I practice witchcraft, but I’m sure you will all find that odd.
truestrange: Not at all. I practice witchcraft and an Buddhist.
you-know-who: Do you work as a witch for a living?
truestrange: Of course not. I just finished med school to be a surgeon.
pooltable: a surgeon who practices witchcraft and is Buddhist
pooltable: you’re quite the character @truestrange almost like a comic book sidekick
truestrange: Thank you, because comic book sidekick is totally what I was going for.
spiderling: I’m a science apprentice and am attending college. I also work a newspaper
Mary_Jane: that’s quite the workload for a 19 year old
spiderling: it really is, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything
you-know-who: I wonder where @gammarad and @lightning&thunder are?
pooltable: probably at their jobs or sleeping
pooltable: speakingbof which I’m late for work
pooltable: talk to you guys later