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  • which, even with strangers, are a normal part of the human experience - don’t happen unless someone goes first.

    Yeah, which why you have to read the fucking room. If you get in an elevator and they don’t greet or otherwise make it apparent that they’re open to conversation, you do not have a shot to take and they don’t want one with you. Leave them alone. They’re not in public to be fucking bothered, they’re there to meet friends, or partake in some service or event. If you’re not part of those things then you’re not invited.

    No, but you joined the discussion on the same side as someone who did, and never distanced yourself from that statement until now.

    Fuck off, I wasn’t taking anyone’s side, I was calling out your bullshit about someone being trapped in an elevator with you entitling you to their attention.


  • Yeah, it might be annoying most of the time, but so are a lot of interactions.

    If those interactions are unnecessary then they shouldn’t happen either. Leave people the fuck alone.

    If you follow that road you’d end up with anyone who talks to someone ever deserving to die in a fire which I think is unreasonable.

    I never said anything about anyone deserving to die in a fire.

    The whole mindset of even thinking about an “opener” or “shooting your shot” is creepy and entitled as fuck. Just be fucking normal, enter the elevator and say hi, then stfu and mind your business unless they give some indication that they’re interested in conversing with you. You’re not entitled to anyone’s attention and you don’t have a shot unless they offer you one.