I had tea with a nobel laureate \:D/

This actually happened some 2 weeks ago, but it just had to go on my new blog. You dont get to meet a nobel laureate every other day.
David Gross, who won the physics nobel in 2004, was in IITB to give a talk.
After the talk, we were given a chance to meet him, the entire huge crowd that is. So there i was, sipping tea and waiting for my chance, with hardly any hopes of meeting him amidst all that crowd around him. And after about 20 minutes, when i looked up again, i did a double take! There was no one around him while he was filling his cup of tea.They were all waiting for him to come back. Should i dash across the lawn to meet him?
It is usually advisable to think before making important decisions in a social gathering. So i decided not to think at all and walked straight upto him. I talked to him for some 10 minutes about all kinds of things. Mostly about physics and in particular about IITs.
U cant tell why it feels nice talking to a nobel laureate. It just does. The fact that he's done something which thousands of other brainy people couldnt do is reason enough to enjoy the conversation. And it always helps if u happen to be interested in the field he is working on.
And that was that. I had tea with a nobel laureate! And every now and then, when i have absolutely nothing to do or think about, i keep saying that to myself.