Chatting up complete strangers

I love chatting with strangers. Especially if they initiate it, cause then it's like I don't have to put any effort into it whatsoever. Lines at the grocery store seem easiest to me - one of us will comment on some product the other person has, or how long the line's been standing still. My favorite recently was this old lady who let me put my items in her cart cause I was dumb and tried to carry 10 items to the counter without a basket or cart or anything. I said thanks, commented on how slow the line was moving, and how people around here are always in such a hurry. She responded with her own views, and I asked her what she did and where she lived. Turns out she lives about 4 blocks away from me, so I told her where I lived. We parted with a "nice to meet you and thanks again!" and that was it. I don't think we'd ever remember each other if we bumped into one another again. But it was a good conversation.

And yeah. RAB has a point. Everyone's a complete stranger at some point or another. I suppose a lot of the time, you're introduced to someone by someone else, which takes the intrusiveness out of it, but they're still a stranger.

Jam it back in, in the dark.