Chatter

I am so fucking sick of hearing mindless chatter between people. I especially hate it when they try to involve me in it.

I go out on smoke breaks at work and we have a bus stop for the smokers. Yes, it really is a bus stop, but it is up next to the building (which is about 100 yards from the main road). It has a wooden bench and stained plastic windows with a metal frame, which is good when it rains or snows but forces people closer together.

All they do is talk about useless, mindless shit that I could give a crap about: Nascar or golf or gardening or home repair or cars (God I hate talking about cars) or the weather or the snow or the cold or the heat or their kids or their wife or their husband or their family in general or the news or pathetic TV shows or even worse, about work.

I go outside half to fulfill my smoking habits and half to turn my brain off for a little bit from sitting in front of the computer all day programming. It allows me to rest my eyes away from the screen and try to enjoy a few moments not thinking about anything. But inevitably some fucking moron decides that, hey, he is too quiet, let's strike up a conversation! Gah, all I want to do is smoke and stop thinking. My brain goes fast enough as it is, let alone trying to think of some useless shit to talk about. I have more important things to think about if I was in the mood to think.

Anyway, I just came back from a break and it hit me at how much people talk about useless shit for either the sake of hearing their own voices so they don't have to think or just to try to "connect" with someone else because their life is such a pathetic waste of existence.

Granted, sometimes there is an intelligent conversation about science or music or even football if it is that time of year, which I enjoy but less so now. And I even sometimes listen and throw in an idea or two to give my view on things. Not that I really care about their point of view but maybe, just maybe, I can increase the IQ of some of the people here. Lost cause I know but worth a try once in a while.

Sounds very elitist of me doesn't it? Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all. And endless babble is NOT the best thing...EVER.

I choose friends who I find, more often then not, can have intelligent and interesting conversations. If you are not one of those kinds of people, then you are probably not going to be my friend. I am not trying to say, however, that I won't have a conversation that isn't very meaningful, but at least I know from history that there is at least an intelligence behind my friends and that at some point the conversation will change to something we are both interested in.

Ok, I think I am done ranting for now but damn please stop telling me the weather forecast! I can go outside and figure it out on my own!

And it disturbs me that I have to hold back my conversation because I might offend someone. I think I will stop doing that. It will at least make for an interesting conversation starter. :)