River: small talk

[mdlbear]

I may have occasionally mentioned that I don't seem to be very good at "small talk". (Note that I'm not talking about the programming language Smalltalk here; I can do that.)

Yeah, I know, it's yet another social skill I don't have, and have never been interested in acquiring. But it means that I have no way to hold up my end of a conversation once I run out of things I particularly wanted to say.

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[mdlbear]

... and I do, on a regular basis. But it's useful for getting a conversation going with someone I don't know well. Though if I do manage to come up with something that makes sense in whatever context we're in (airplane, conference, ...) the conversation rarely gets beyond that.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

And, the majority of the time, that is the socially appropriate amount of talk expected from both parties, hence: small talk.