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by gavinpc 4696 days ago
> couldn't have made small talk if he had a gun to his head

To be fair, I think this describes most people.

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It describes most technical people who are also introverted and spent most of their lives with minimal face-to-face social interaction.
Most people in general. A lot of people think they're much better at small talk than they are, and blame the other guy when an interaction doesn't go as smoothly as they hoped, or there's an awkward silence.

People who are excellent at small talk have to be very charismatic and seem genuinely interested in the conversation even when it's very boring. Very few people are capable of either of these things, and in my experience it's actually management & marketing types who are the worst at both.

OT, but I just meant that one would be preoccupied with the gun to one's head.