Great observations! I have often wondered why people feel comfortable enough with a stranger, to just walk up and start a rather personal sort of conversation. I'm a news photagrapher at a local tv station and forever have folks asking me questions. Many times they are related to my job. but often enough, I get off the wall stuff. I dont mind, actually it usually is great comedy relief in a job that unfortunately is rather a downer,(accidents, crime,ect.,) BTW i'm a big, bearded, hairy, kinda scarey sort(it helps at the 3 am murder scenes) and my goodest fun is when the lil' ol' ladies come to visit me. Seems like a good research topic, but I think I'll just have a toddy and dropkick murphy the urge away. Lorc.