While she won't see it, Bucky feels relief when she smiles and speaks to him, since while it's not like he's never struck out ( it's happened at least a time or two ) he'd hate that to be how he spends his last night before he ships out. He'll take talking to a beautiful dame over having to think about how he's heading off to war in the morning.

"I dunno, I kinda just got here myself. Not from outta town, but to the fair," he explains as he nods a bit to say yes, of course that makes sense. Her accent is different - she sure as hell doesn't sound like she's from New York, from Brooklyn no less. "Where're you from? Your accent sounds like you're a long way from home." She brought it up, being from out of town, he might as well go a bit further with it.

"I'm James," a beat, barely even half a second as he huffs out a quick laugh, "Bucky. Most people call me Bucky." His family might call him variations of James at times ( Jimmy, Jamie ) it's Bucky that's stuck ever since Steve became his best friend. Just like it'll follow him overseas and he might as well just accept it.