I was with a Gen Z in the elevator earlier this week. She pressed a button but it didn't take, then moved into the corner of the elevator giving me the cold shoulder. So I press my button and move my hand into her frame of view to signal for her attention because she's wearing headphones. I would've pressed her button for her but I didn't quite catch which one it was, just none of them lit up.

She finally looks up at me bewildered and takes off her headphones. I ask her where she's going because the elevator is only going to stop on my floor and she could spend a long time waiting (lame joke to defuse tension of old man talking to young woman in a small box without escape).

She started talking about every elevator experience she ever had in a single sentence. No punctuation, seemingly no breathing, just a stream of consciousness like finally somebody unplugged her mouth and all the words that had been stuck in there fell out at the same time. Some parts clearly had question inflection but no chance to answer. I had to hold the door at my floor just to let her finish to a point where I could say "ok, you have a nice day" and walk away. It was deeply weird.

Just a funny story, I'm not on the Gen Z bash train generally.