This is basically how most of my non mandatory interactions with peers go but I’ll lead with a recent example
I was just at Disneyland for senior trip (high school) and was waiting in line for one of the rides with my friend and was sort of haphazardly looking at some girl who was in a further-down part of the line. I guess she was from another school on the same kind of trip. I don’t know if I was really looking to look at her specifically, obviously I found her pretty but I wasn’t consciously plotting to stare at her.
I guess did it for too long though because eventually she noticed me looking and she and her friend made eye contact with me and they were smiling and looking back at each other so I just shifted focus and forgot about them in 30 seconds. I didn’t realize it but she was in the fastpass lane so like a minute later she ended up right next to me. I was facing away from her and didn’t know she was there until she tapped me on the shoulder so I turned around and she and her friends were all sort of giggling and she told me to play rock paper scissors with her. I said no I’m good and turned back around immediately and that was it, they were dead silent the rest of the time until they got moved up.
I don’t really get why she even did that. I know it’s an upgraded version of girls going up to an ugly guy at school and pretending to be best friends or feign interest but I don’t know why I’m a target for it other than just being ugly. Is there some way you can avoid it even if you are part of that common denominator