What if you asked strangers what they think about you? After you’ve stepped inside a restaurant, office, or whatever, and seen someone shoot you a look you couldn’t place, wouldn’t it be interesting to circle back to ask that person about their initial impression? (Assuming, of course, they didn’t run for the hills.) Maybe they were thinking the precisely what you imagined, maybe they concluded the opposite, or, and this just may be the most troublesome possibility, maybe they didn’t notice you at all.

Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias recently visited The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to explain why he was fired by the Bush Administration.