Hah, I mean, I don’t know them at all lol, my approach would just be to have a bit of chat about how their life has been going recently, and I’d bet I could find some admirable trait or accomplishment.

Or maybe they just dress particularly well, maybe they have a pleasant voice… possibilities are endless, so long as you keep and open mind and more or less just politely say what you really feel.

… Its funny, I am quite a cynic at a broad societal level, but actually person to person? Still tend toward naive optimist.