“It’s not a catastrophe! You’ll walk up to the counter and tell them the situation, and they’ll figure it out. What’s the worst that can happen, you’ll do it wrong and it’ll be awkward? It’s weird how scared people are of that these days, the kids call it cringe, like that’s the worst thing that can happen, messing up a real-life interaction. Nobody has people skills, because they stay home all the time, so they’re scared to do anything but stay at home because they’re afraid of being weird in public or getting caught on camera and mocked by millions of strangers. It’s an isolation vortex.”
