Have you ever tried this? Just turn and walk away, trust it’s hard at first, but you do this 3 times and no one will lock you into small talk again. They’ll just do a little shrug and walk away as well

I’ve always been lucky, filling out forms has always been something I can hyper focus on, I know it doesn’t make any sense, but I guess I just really like putting pencil to paper and seeing my own handwriting