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Kind of a silly thread, nothing too deep here.
I have an enfp friend that I do spend a fair amount of time with. We walk around a lot go to pubs or restaurants or wherever. One day about 6 months ago, he said to me..."you know one thing I've always noticed about you, is that every where you go, people give you free stuff or excessively good service or deals."
It caught me off guard and I said yeah right, you're BS'ing me, no one does that. He began listing off years of examples and by the end of it I started thinking crap he might be right. In fact the more I thought about it I realized it's true and it's been that way my whole life, I think I just figured most people are treated that way, so it never stood out in my mind.
I began polling my other friends and family and they said they notice it too and it's why they always want me to come along with them when they purchase big ticket items.
So in critically analyzing this phenomenon, I don't think it has anything to do with my looks, as the treatment I get comes from across the board, old women, teenagers, men, no specific groups that way. I am very polite and respectful to all people but I'm Canadian, it's kind of what most of us do.
Then I started thinking is this one of the benefits of being an infp? I'm non threatening, benign, neutral, maybe child like , a spaced out dream cadet. Maybe this all invokes some kind of paternal instincts in people, I don't know for sure.
So I ask my fellow INFP'ers , do you receive this kind of treatment by society? Is this one of the few infp benefits or am I generalizing that this could all happen to us as a group?
p.s. I'm happy to cite examples if you ask.
I have an enfp friend that I do spend a fair amount of time with. We walk around a lot go to pubs or restaurants or wherever. One day about 6 months ago, he said to me..."you know one thing I've always noticed about you, is that every where you go, people give you free stuff or excessively good service or deals."
It caught me off guard and I said yeah right, you're BS'ing me, no one does that. He began listing off years of examples and by the end of it I started thinking crap he might be right. In fact the more I thought about it I realized it's true and it's been that way my whole life, I think I just figured most people are treated that way, so it never stood out in my mind.
I began polling my other friends and family and they said they notice it too and it's why they always want me to come along with them when they purchase big ticket items.
So in critically analyzing this phenomenon, I don't think it has anything to do with my looks, as the treatment I get comes from across the board, old women, teenagers, men, no specific groups that way. I am very polite and respectful to all people but I'm Canadian, it's kind of what most of us do.
Then I started thinking is this one of the benefits of being an infp? I'm non threatening, benign, neutral, maybe child like , a spaced out dream cadet. Maybe this all invokes some kind of paternal instincts in people, I don't know for sure.
So I ask my fellow INFP'ers , do you receive this kind of treatment by society? Is this one of the few infp benefits or am I generalizing that this could all happen to us as a group?
p.s. I'm happy to cite examples if you ask.