Lacking interactional scripts makes strangers feel acutely vulnerable in unfamiliar spaces

Evidence

If I went to a pool room, I would feel uncomfortable cause I don’t know how I’m supposed to act or what I’m supposed to tell the guy at the desk and how I’m supposed to set up things and I would feel terribly uncomfortable. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 627

Categorization

• XREF: A lived illustration of Goffman’s front-stage/back-stage and interaction ritual — the micro-anxiety of missing performance scripts.