Learn to get passed that. Once you do, you'll learn how to shift conversation from such topics to more interesting ones.
Depends. Like I said, small stuff can be really interesting to me (which is why chuck gets pissed when I say something is "common sense") but aside from movies and the innerworkings of workplaces, I've discussed scientific theory, historical events, etc with random people. You can learn a lot by plugging into the verbally-expressed "collective unconsciousness."
Yo dawgs. The staff at my community college are all morons. They don't know the answers to the simplest questions. A guy I got transfered to was ****ing chopping on some food loud as ****.. And I got transferred and I've been on hold for 10 minutes. -_-