Small talk. Why do we do this? You know, you meet someone, and the first thing out of their mouth is, ‘How about this weather?’ How about it? It’s weather! It’s doing what weather does! Is it good? Is it bad? Who cares? We both have eyes! We can both look out the window! It’s not exactly a deep philosophical inquiry. It’s a placeholder. It’s the conversational equivalent of elevator music. We’re just waiting for the conversation to get to its floor, and it’s always stuck on ‘partly cloudy.’
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