Confused person at T5A
Boarding a flight to Jersey at A15, I was at the gate, had just had my boarding card checked and was walking towards the jetway when someone waiting at the adjacent gate asked me in accented but fluent English if I was going to Jersey and I confirmed I was. 'Newark in Jersey?' he asked, 'no Jersey channel Islands'. 'New Jersey?' he persisted, 'no just Jersey'. 'Jersey USA?' 'No, just jersey, Old Jersey'. I would have held the queue up if I'd explained any further not that I could make it any clearer whatever I said.
If he'd been heading for Newark I could understand him being concerned he was at the wrong gate. But he was at an A gate himself, so why would he care? He wasn't making conversation out of curiosity he was talking as though he needed to know and anyway I was was walking past him not just standing about. Some kind of intentional distraction? but from what?