I’m hooked on reruns of a show on Lifetime called, “Still Standing.” It’s a family sitcom that’s a little less clean cut and a little more real than some of it’s predecessors. On one episode, Judy, the mother is sitting on a bench at the park and a woman on her lunch break sits down next to her.

Judy proceeds to comment on her kid playing on the playground with some kid she doesn’t know and how kids can do that…just walk up to a strange kid and say “hi, wanna hang?” She then laments why adults can’t do that. The stranger agrees with her and then Judy proceeds to try to recreate what her daughter is doing on the playground, make a new friend of sorts. The woman from the office immediately flees. It’s funny but it’s sort of true.

I was just thinking, as adults we don’t tend to walk up to strange adults and say “Hi, wanna hang?” It’s weird and borderline stalker-y. But then I thought…actually maybe we do kind of do that. Only we call it networking. Thoughts?