In my college days, I often hitchhiked to places instead of taking the train. It was just more fun to talk to people of various kinds. One day on my way back f

In my college days, I often hitchhiked to places instead of taking the train. It was just more fun to talk to people of various kinds. One day on my way back from a trade show about the future of technology (1992?), I get picked up by this chain smoking hippy guy in an old beat up Ford Escort. We had a pleasant conversation. And then it suddenly hit me that I was talking to a famous (in my country) radio comedian. And that’s where the conversation stopped. It was exactly as you described: I just felt embarrassed talking about mundane stuff like the full color flat LCD panels that were so cool. What do you say to somebody like that?