Things That I Don't Find Very Interesting To Talk About

It's a pretty finite list. I've been accused by folks of finding EVERYTHING interesting. Generally this is true. And I know everyone has a story to tell, so I am impatient when we have to talk about stuff that doesn't really tell me anything about the character of the speaker. Nonetheless, people persist in spending precious conversational minutes on the following:

I continue to be baffled by adults who talk about needing to get their laundry done. It's not a big deal. Everyone does it. Sometimes its a hassle. This is not interesting.

I don't enjoy hearing about the travails of visiting, or being visited by, relatives. These are usually sort of like travel itineraries punctuated by the food preferences, allergies, or difficult idiosyncracies of people I don't know.

It's not really all that fun for me, when out drinking with friends, to hear stories of other times people were out drinking and the silly things everyone did. Sometimes, in unusual circumstances, these are worth telling. And if I was involved in the mischief I do enjoy reliving it from time to time. But it's sort of a baseline premise that funny and slightly unwise happen when everyone's out knocking back the drinks.

Car troubles are rarely interesting. Pet maladies are not interesting.

I don't really tune in well to tales of comparison shopping, bargain hunting, or whether something was a deal or a ripoff.

The question of whether somebody or something has a left-bias or a right-bias is not too interesting to me. Largely uninterested in media shenanigans and political misbehavior. Sometimes I get outraged, often I'm concerned, but I don't usually find that talking about it brings about comfort, understanding, or a sense of empowerment.

Almost everything else is fair game. Whatever your passions, your worries, your fascinations, your doubts, you can be pretty sure I'll find it interesting if it tells me something about you. And you better believe that I care about the future of Ben and J. Lo.

[Update: Here are the things that Eurotrash doesn't like to talk about. ]

Comments

[Richard Ames]

The circumstances of the termination of a past intimate relationship is not interesting either. Your paragraph on bargain shopping jogged this particular thought in me, as the two subjects are basically the same, that is, they are rooted in "tales of comparison shopping, bargain hunting, or whether something was a deal or a ripoff."

[Richard Ames]

Oh yeah, I forgot. Lawyer jokes are boring too.