Today I saw a lot of people lined up to buy these sushi meals for lunch and this place had a big sign saying buy one item and get the other one for half price. I guess from a business side they are trying to generate more sales this way. As it turned out,not many customers take advantage of the deal and simply buy one item.

That’s what was kind of funny I thought as there was a line up of person after person just buying one item. If you think about it, if all these people just randomly paired up and bought the item together they can both walk away from just buying one item where both of them would get to save some money as a result. Is it too weird to ask a complete stranger to do something like that though?

Thinking for myself, if I was in that line up and someone proposed the idea to me I would think that it would be a smart idea. This kind of thing would probably be so much easier if people could find a way to ask without asking directly. For example, just having like a cell phone app where people indicate if anyone else is in the area and wants to group shop save money to just notify them.

Just the other day I noticed this person that was trying to rally up a couple of people to chip in to buy lottery tickets for an upcoming draw. The twist was that he was looking for complete strangers as he thought it would be an interesting story if a bunch of strangers got to together and just happened to have won. Sure enough, he didn’t really get much response.

He was then saying it was probably a dumb idea now that he looks back at it as most people just simply won’t trust strangers with money in this way. For the record, the group would have had to sign a lottery ticket contract to avoid any dubious claims.

That was an interesting remark I thought as there are a ton of stories out there where just say a couple of strangers got together just to end up creating something very profitable. I would say for this kind of a situation as long as everything is done in a very public and open way I wouldn’t have too much of an issue about the stranger aspects.

I personally never ventured into anything with a complete stranger yet, but it would be an interesting experience.