Not who you asked, but no, old ingrained cultural thing!

The trick is to trick us into not realising we are interacting, then we are quite friendly and polite :)

> The trick is to trick us into not realising we are interacting, then we are quite friendly and polite :)

i dont think you can be friendly and ALSO dislike talking to strangers. I think thats what it means to be friendly, or at least its a necessary component of it