These people are at work. I would probably be going to work, or coming home from work. They don’t have time to waste on a frivolous conversation and neither would I.
If I ever stopped at a Starbucks. Which I have never done.
If I go to a burger joint....I’m there for a burger and not to talk bait and lures with the clerk. If I go to a gas station....I’m there for gas and not to talk great NY Yankee shortstops of all time with the clerk. If I go to Walmart for some cheap wine....I’m there for wine and to talk septic tank solutions with the clerk.
These people act like customers have hours and hours each week in some line or at some counter and we can haul up and discuss Green Bay quarterback complaints with some clerk there and get some satisfaction from that brief moment. Mighty bizarre if you ask me....to think this way.