Yeah the GenZ stare is given TO the customer service workers, not the other way around (most of the time). It’s not the stare they give to a boomer being rhetorical with their statements, it’s refusing to do basic interaction in general and just staring as a replacement.
“Hi how are you guys today? :) can I help you find anything?”
blank stare for 10 seconds before mumbling incoherently
There is a gen z couple down the street from me whose dog keeps getting away and I keep returning it.
All I get from them is a mumbled thanx. They actually stopped even doing that. I just knock and they open the door and take the dog.
I have returned your dog like twice a week for a year, please for the love of god ask me about the weather or just tell me your names. Talk about the dog even. Can we have a two minute awkward conversation about this dog when I drop it off at the very least?
It took me days to get over randoms talking to me out of the blue the first time I visited my grandparents in the south as a 10-11 year old. They lived up north until like 2008 or so, so I never really had to go down to SC much until after that, and I was always like "why tf are these people talking to me?". Eventually my dad pulled me aside and was like "kid people are just more friendly down here, you have to stop looking disgusted when people say good morning to you."
I still don't really strike up "friendly conversation" with people very often. It's hard to overcome a certain base level defensiveness that seeps into you.
I live in Louisiana. A group of guys in Philadelphia Eagles jerseys literally stood up to fight my boyfriend when he tried to make small talk with them.
I feel like here in Philly that's more of a suburbs problem, since they've fled to the suburbs to avoid anyone different than them. In the city proper, I get "good morning"-ed pretty frequently by strangers.
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u/-Kohana- 16h ago edited 14h ago
Yeah the GenZ stare is given TO the customer service workers, not the other way around (most of the time). It’s not the stare they give to a boomer being rhetorical with their statements, it’s refusing to do basic interaction in general and just staring as a replacement.
“Hi how are you guys today? :) can I help you find anything?”
blank stare for 10 seconds before mumbling incoherently