If you do not have practice using social spontaneity to good effect it is ideal to try it in situations where the other party may both physically and socially escape, just as a general rule. On public transportation is not a physically escapable place to be.
Yes, what I used to do was yell greetings at random people on campus. Sometimes questionable propositions. Plenty of room for escape, especially when I’m sitting and they’re walking. I met several good friends that way.
ETA: “questionable propositions” here being things like “P=NP” or “multiple realizability is true”
If you do not have practice using social spontaneity to good effect it is ideal to try it in situations where the other party may both physically and socially escape, just as a general rule. On public transportation is not a physically escapable place to be.
Yes, what I used to do was yell greetings at random people on campus. Sometimes questionable propositions. Plenty of room for escape, especially when I’m sitting and they’re walking. I met several good friends that way.
ETA: “questionable propositions” here being things like “P=NP” or “multiple realizability is true”
Which questionable propositions? Some strange things come to mind.