As you would imagine, getting out of your chair and interrupting every person you see hard at work is a pretty scary idea and enough to make you doubt if it’s even worth doing.

As a matter of fact, Andrew, who really liked the idea initially, didn’t want to do it once we were at the coffee shop.

Once he saw that the first few people I talked to seemed to be delighted by our experiment, he grabbed his notepad and started asking questions as well (we included a surprising note on our experiment at the end of this article).

Nearly everyone we talked to told us that they too had always wondered what everyone else was doing.

We thought it would be nice to share our findings with you. Here’s a selection of answers: