I hele, I conceal, what do you conceal? All the secrets of masons in masonry.
Some have this glamorous view of fellow masons trying each other outside of Lodge. It may have been a common practice before regularity/recognition between lodges became the norm, but nowadays, it seems to be an act of rudeness to assume you have the right to try another man and "disqualify" him as a Mason even though he is in fact a Brother just because you didn't like his response.
One should really avoid masonic topics outside of Lodge unless you're with someone you know from lodge.
I'm weary of people I do not know that insist on discussing ritual with me after I explain to them that I'm not comfortable doing so because we just met and never sat together in Lodge. Those people either forgot their first lesson or are trying to pass themselves off as a mason.
To be honest, the one Brother I mentioned in the post you quoted of mine...Do you know how I knew he was most likely a mason? After exchanging lodge names, of which we both recognized, we talked for 40 minutes about everything but masonry!
I eventually made it up to his lodge to sit with him.