In film, when two strangers meet, they often introduce themselves formally.
In reality, this almost never happens.
For the conservation often just gets going in a rate and a pace all of its own that names are sometimes left behind.
I went to an informal concert in the Kitchen of The Storyhouse in Chester the other night and fell into conversation with a guy one seat away.
He was Polish and worked for an Engineering company and had lived here just eight weeks.
He had rosacea on his cheeks which he felt embarrassed by and said
he felt that many people didn't take to Polish people in the UK.
I found all this about him within the first couple of minutes of conversation.
He liked history and had travelled and worked in New Zealand and Australia before coming to the UK.
He wasn't homesick but he was lonely and we chatted over coffee cups in the interval
He looked sad and we shook hands when it was time to go
He introduced himself as "Łukasz"
And I when I got into the car I regretted not suggesting that we had coffee again
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