Reply #60: It's been a couple decades since anyone has asked me something like that.

[deutsey]

The last time I remember an encounter like that was at the U of MD. I had graduated from there a couple years earlier, but was on campus waiting for the woman I was seeing at the time.

As I waited outside the Zoo/Psych building, this guy and girl with that way-too-friendly smile on their faces came up to me and I think said something meant to break the ice and put me at ease, I guess. I was leery of them, but was polite and engaged in some small talk.

That's when they sprang their real reason for talking with me.

One of them asked: "If you were to die today, do you know where you'd go?"

Saying the first thing that came to mind, I said: "I don't know...the morgue?"

I think they started in on their spiel about going to heaven or hell and I just said, "I'm really not interested," and started reading my book.

I haven't had an encounter like that since then that I can remember.