Great prop: Guidebook of your own city
Purely by accident, I discovered a great prop to have with you in a coffee shop etc: A guidebook of your own city.
First of all, it makes you very approachable: Anybody else will assume you're a tourist, so people will actually come up to you by themselves to ask about your stay, point out interesting things to do etc.
And secondly, after you've started a conversation, you can say something like "A friend of mine from [some exotic location] is coming to visit soon, so I'm preparing to play guide for him". Makes you sound interesting, gives you social proof (taking care of your buddy) and gives you *tons* of stuff to continue the conversation: How you met your friend, what did you do in [friend's country], ask her for advice about what to show him in the city,...
Plus, you can continue with something like "Hey, did you know that?" People love it when you tell them something they didn't know about their own city.
First of all, it makes you very approachable: Anybody else will assume you're a tourist, so people will actually come up to you by themselves to ask about your stay, point out interesting things to do etc.
And secondly, after you've started a conversation, you can say something like "A friend of mine from [some exotic location] is coming to visit soon, so I'm preparing to play guide for him". Makes you sound interesting, gives you social proof (taking care of your buddy) and gives you *tons* of stuff to continue the conversation: How you met your friend, what did you do in [friend's country], ask her for advice about what to show him in the city,...
Plus, you can continue with something like "Hey, did you know that
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