This friday at school I saw a guy who was my classmate a long time ago. We were never really "pals". I had talked to him probably 2 or 3 times in my life. Anyway, I remembered that he was nice and I knew who he was and I was happy to see him. When he wasn't talking to anyone, I walked up to him and just said "Hi. I was in your class three years ago." He was delighted. He told me he sort of recognized me, asked what my name was again and started reminiscing on that year at shcool. I've never done that before. But it wasn't that scary after saying hello. I thought about this afterwards. When I went to talk to him, he didn't know if I knew him or why I wanted to make conversation but he was friendly and polite. I was really excited about this - even if I hadn't had a specific reason to talk to him, he would have been friendly and polite. For some reason I have always thought people would be rude if I tried to talk to them.