Your opinion on: Strangers

Everybody has to commute everyday or at least take some sort of public transportation throughout the week. Most of us think that we are losing our time because our parents probably told us not to t... Everybody has to commute everyday or at least take some sort of public transportation throughout the week. Most of us think that we are losing our time because our parents probably told us not to talk to strangers. I, for instance, every time I have to do it, I try to engage in a conversation with someone I never met before. Do you do that? And if you dont: why are you so afraid of strangers?