I had not thought of this as breaking a social script, but I think I do this most days because... it's fun? I don't do it necessarily in every transaction, but it's nice to have at least one or two stranger-interactions per day that are not completely unthinking. You can make strangers laugh! It's a lot of fun. In general you also get better service because it reminds people that you, too, are human.
Yes I understood what you mean about breaking *out* of the script rather than 'breaking' it :) I haven't got any good examples from today but I just saw this, which seems like a brilliant example: https://annekadet.substack.com/p/skwon
(Scroll down to the Skwon section)
I'm totally doing this (not specifically with this word, but generally). If I can keep a straight face (!)
To understand a complex system, fuck her gently and observe
I had not thought of this as breaking a social script, but I think I do this most days because... it's fun? I don't do it necessarily in every transaction, but it's nice to have at least one or two stranger-interactions per day that are not completely unthinking. You can make strangers laugh! It's a lot of fun. In general you also get better service because it reminds people that you, too, are human.
Yeah, I agree it's fun! It's certainly not "breaking" as you'd break a glass bottle but breaking more like "breaking out of the matrix".
What are some of your tricks and some of the dialogues that happens when you talk to strangers?
Yes I understood what you mean about breaking *out* of the script rather than 'breaking' it :) I haven't got any good examples from today but I just saw this, which seems like a brilliant example: https://annekadet.substack.com/p/skwon
(Scroll down to the Skwon section)
I'm totally doing this (not specifically with this word, but generally). If I can keep a straight face (!)