I can count the number of friends I’ve made volunteering on one hand and one finger. Pleasant conversations? Absolutely. Being pleasant enough to warrant spending any-at-all time together outside of that one, very specific activity? Just one. Everyone is busy. It’s like they have their calendar full even before they start with that one activity. So I talk to them when we do that one activity. And meet at the store. Great. Yet another person to add to the list of mandatory hellos and disallowed friendships.

Volunteering eventually becomes another thing to justify why I cannot make it today. For the pleasant conversations with people who do not want anything to do with me in any other circumstance.

But these kinds of posts are great for gloatposting for people who have likeable personalities. Just meet people. It worked for them.

Now you can refer to the rest of my posting/ranting history for why the above is bunk.