Miss Manners suggests you try spontaneity and not overthink the situation. If you happen to make eye contact, a shy, endearing smile is fine. But if they do not return your gaze, keep it moving.

Miss Manners will agree with you that even on Day 1, this was not very funny. But it had (and, for the customer, still has) some slight newness that could pass for banter, or at least lightness of ...

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