I wanna give huge public respect to whoever the girls were in front of me at grocery checkout today. They made great smalltalk and built a rapport with the trainee grocery clerk. They didn't even say anything fun or cool -- they just said normal dumb stuff in a friendly way. Then they said yes to giving the two dollars to the grocery charity. Maybe they were just happy to be at the grocery store tonight.
I have no idea how you ever build that kind of charisma, but I am glad some people have it. It turns out there are some people in the world who it is fun to sell groceries to.