Chat Up Line?

On my most laborious trek home this evening, there was this attractive woman/girl/whathaveyou sitting on the tube, then the bus (it was one of those multiple-transport nights).

Anyway, it got me to thinking: how on earth would you (or I) approach someone like that without looking like a psycho? If there's something that London breeds in most of us, it's fear - fear of other people, fear of being mugged, fear of being involved in a conversation that's duller than dishwater.

Maybe it's my empathy showing through, but I could tell as she was reading her book that the last thing she needed or wanted was some stumbling attempt at conversation from me. Is there anything I could have said to woo her away from those pages? Methinks not. Mealsothinks a lot of things, so I could be wrong... but I'm not a psycho.