Just had a chat with a girl so akward I double awked myself from osmosis.
So she's a complete stranger at a coffee shop. Taps me on the shoulder, asks about my work (blender), just HANDS me her ipad, (bless her heart, I promptly returned it), talks about her frequent hospitalization, randomly brings up the faults of the homeless shelter system, (she is not homeless she mentioned being in college) stops talking and leaves.
She tried to tie in into my work too, like gamedev stuff and I wanted to give her a hand there but I was just so stumped I barely got a word out.
Like I feel bad for not carrying that better, I could've helped her out. If I had better jokes or some shit, cause I kept desperately searching for some to diffuse the tension and they just did not land.
This can't happen again, it was tragic. I feel like I made her feel worse. But when I don't know you and I'm on my fifth "oh that's so cool!" I don't know where else to go with that.