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Conversation Stopper

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Majikthise tries to work on her social skills. . .

ME: How’s the wedding planning going?

COWORKER: Pretty good. But everyone has an opinion. Like, we’re trying to go with a French Bistro theme, but my in-laws keep saying “Everyone likes cocktail weenies.”

ME: Yeah, everyone’s got to throw in their two cents. Like when Ted Williams died.

CW: [puzzled silence]

ME: You know how, when he died his family started arguing about whether they were going to cryogenically freeze all of him or…[at this point I realize the conversation has gone way off-track, but it’s too late]…just his head, or cremate his entire body. And the Boston Metro ran this man-on-the-street feature, where they asked people “Should they cryogenically preserve or cremate Ted Williams?” And one guy said “I think they should bury him at Fenway Park.”

CW: Oh.

ME: It’s like, everybody’s got an opinion, whether it’s appropriate or not….

Why does this remind me of every conversation I’ve ever had? Do people go into academia because they’re incapable of communicating with normal humans? Is entry to graduate school driven more by a need to escape from the universe of the socially capable than a desire to learn new things? Maybe. . .

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