I've been living in Ireland for 3 weeks, and I'm getting tired of people being friendly.

I've been living in Ireland for 3 weeks and I've gotten so tired of people being friendly. It's exhausting. I walk into a newsagent, I want to buy a lottery ticket, I'm looking for a certain type of ticket but they don't have it. I ask if they have any more in the back, and a worker comes from the back. We're in a small space and I don't want to step away from the counter so he just reaches over me and grabs 5 tickets for me. Then he hands them to me and I say thank you and he just grins at me. Okay, fine.<br><br>I get to the bus station to go somewhere, and I'm waiting in line to buy my ticket. When I get to the front the lady at the desk just asks where I'm going and I tell her and she says "you know you're a long way to be going by bus for that, do you have a car?" I say no, and she says "do you really need to go that far?" And I say yeah, I do. So she tells me about trains and how to get to them and I thank her for the help, and she says "no problem, you're very welcome." No problem?! Like, I can't even get a basic thank you, just "you're very welcome" every time. I'm just trying to buy a bus ticket and I've had three people thank me for buying a ticket and I just want to buy a ticket without being thanked for it. No, I'm not doing you a favor, I just want to buy a ticket. <br><br>And then I'm in a pub and there's a big rugby game on, and the people around me are all cheering. I don't know a single player on either team and I don't know why they're playing or when it is, I just know that the pub is showing the game and people are cheering at it. So I cheer, and the guy next to me says "ah, you're from Ireland too! Welcome home, you're very welcome!" I'm not from Ireland, I just moved here to live. I don't even have a permanent address here yet. So I thank him for the welcome, and he just grins at me.<br><br>And when I'm out walking, people pass me and say hello. And they say "it's a grand day today isn't it?" And I say it's fine. I just want to walk in peace. I don't want to be told the weather, I don't want to be asked how my day is, I just want to walk in silence. But I get stopped by everyone and everyone is just so damned cheerful all the time, and it's exhausting. It's exhausting being polite when I just want to be left alone.<br><br>And it's not just me. I've seen tourists get stopped by 5 people on the street, asked for pictures. They say no, just leave them alone. But they don't. They're like "okay, I'll just stand here next to you and take this picture then, and if you want to be in it that would be great!" Then they take the picture and immediately start asking them where they're from, what they like about Ireland, if they like Guinness, if they like boxty. They just won't leave them alone, and it's exhausting watching it happen.<br><br>And I just want to be left alone. I don't want to be greeted with a smile every time I step foot out into public. I don't want to be told it's a grand day out. I just want to be able to walk into a shop without being asked how my day is. I don't want to be told I'm very welcome every five minutes. I just want to be left alone. Is that too much to ask?<br><br>**tl;dr**: I'm tired of being greeted with a smile every time I walk into public, I don't want to be thanked for existing every five minutes. I don't want to be asked about the weather every time I step outside. I just want to be able to exist in public without being constantly bombarded by people telling me I'm welcome. Is that too much to ask?