How do you get other people to speak with you? Usually I never know what to say in response.
Being a chatterbox hasn’t worked out too well throughout my life. Even in my second language, German, it’s evident im sort of a “parrot” when it comes to learned social phrases.
Socially exhausted right now and feeling like an alien.
The Vance method guaranteed* to work:
[enter donut shop] * point at random employee*
“How long have you been working here!”
“About eighteen months”
“And how long have YOU been working here!”
“Six weeks or so.”
“Mhm. AND YOU!”
Then just go through every single employee, order ‘whatever makes sense’ and leave.
*this claim has been rigorously fact-checked by dog-eating Haitians