This is a a psychological phenomenon, when you are talking to someone you will create a bond—whether you like it or not. This will make you do things you may not be aware. Don’t believe it?
Let’s start with the more plausible things, did you notice that when you talk to a friend and give him something to hold, how he or she will take it? Well, this is the Situational Blindness. This works with complete strangers too, and it’s even more impressive.
The guys from Fun Time Federation on YouTube usually do prank videos, but now they did a social experiment about this blindness and it did work, every single time.