My wife and kids always make fun of me for the goofy dad-joke-level interactions* I will create with strangers (that far more often then not elicits laughs from the person with whom I interact).

When they tease me about it, I ask them if they'd rather live in a world of complete atomization, free of any human interaction.

I know I would not!

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEGohj0IkQo. (They call me "Bonjour" sometimes lol)

Then he needs to be willing to live both sides of the equation.