Have you ever spoken to a stranger in the most unexpected place that kept you wondering all day - not why but how did he do that? Well, I just had one such experience. I was browsing few books on marketing and entrepreneurs bio-graphies at Landmark bangalore and I heard someone making a remark about the books I was just looking at. He added, "I have recently started reading a few of them and I think they are excellent reads". I nodded without paying any heed. I first decided to ignore him totally. Why would someone tell me (an absolute stranger) about his reading habits. However, he went on. "So do you find these books interesting as well?" he asked. Now, what kind of a question was that. Who the hell was he. Maybe someone I had met earlier - no ways! I nodded again and added "kind of". I was quite surprised on how somebody could just attempt to strike a conversation to a total stranger. Maybe he laid a bet with his friend that he would talk to some stranger and manage exchanging business cards. I suddenly decided to check on his background. I asked him what did he do for a living. He turned out to be a SAP India employee. I didn't want to believe it for the first time he told me that. By now I had picked up Seth Godin's - All Marketers are Liars. He returned back the question to me. I told him I was a small time entrepreneur. Within next few questions he was already impressed with what I did. We exchanged cards and he left. I couldn't buy that story that someone could just strike up a 2 minutes conversation in the middle of an extremely busy store. I don't think so I'll have the zeal to do anything like that. I walked out of the store buying Seth Godin's book and pondering on how extroverts do it. This incident immediately reminded me on how one of my friend struck a conversation with a guy wearing FOSS(Free Open Source Software) t-shirt in bangalore and eventually hired him. Probably next time you walk into a music store or a book store, try conversing to people who are standing right into the section that attracts you the most and see if you can strike a conversation. You may really have an interesting story to tell. It sounds a little too adventurous for me but I think I should someday give it a try.