This stupidity has become so prevalent that most people are aghast when you start a conversation with them in public. That's around here, I should add. Folks just don't know what to do when a human speaks to them.
Once I get out of the city, headed over and into PA, people actually enjoy conversing and you can make friends most anywhere.
Those are college girls. Our future. The best and brightest.
Thank God I'll be dead soon.