does it bother you when strangers talk to you on the street?

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When I go do my grocery shopping in the summer, it seems I'm a magnet for strangers coming up to me asking for money, telling me they need it for the bus, or they tell me some sob story, like this one guy who claimed to have injured his leg and it was all bandaged up but he seemed to be walking just fine and then he took it off. What a filthy liar. They also ask me for cigarettes even though I don't smoke and they never see me smoking and yet they just assume that I do, which I hate. I don't have brown teeth, foul-smelling clothes, and my fingers don't look like they've been dipped in poop, so why would they think I'm a smoker? Maybe they do know I'm not and they're asking just to annoy me. I'm sure that's why the teenagers do it.

If I'm not expecting an interaction, it does bother me because I'm usually in a specific mindset where if someone talks to me, it jerks my attention to them and kind of actually hurts. I have to prepare myself.

When I am outside my only goal is to get to my destination with as little fuss as possible. Any interruption is unwelcome especially when it's someone stopping me to talk. This might be because the only people who do this in my town are people who want to ask for money and tend to be fairly abusive when you refuse. Because as you know, insulting someone automatically makes them much more sympathetic.

Or is that how it actually works? Have I got this all wrong?