fucking love talking for a long time to strangers and never asking for a name or socials, theres something so charming about the first and last time you speak to someone like that
one of the bleakest facts of reality is that if you are gen z but grew up in fandom (particularly on ao3/tumblr) you will forever have some amount of Millennial Particles and theres genuinely nothing you can do about it
I say this to my kids all the time. Do it for the plot. Do it for the story. Tell yourself if it all goes wrong it will just be a funny story. Ironically job interviews, dates, and public speaking go better anyway if you're just happy to be there and not overthinking it!!