Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

