As we drove down our driveway today we saw a van parked by the side of the road. It was a woman from one of the farms in the area and they were moving their cattle up the road to a different paddock. We hadn't seen her for ages so we took the opportunity to have a bit of a catch up while we waited. We chatted about babies/kids, work, calving, moving houses etc. Just the usual small talk.
When we drove on our way, Shmoo was full of questions, asking who that person was and what were we talking about. I gave him a brief run-down on the conversation. There were a few seconds of silence as he processed it and then, perplexed, asked why. He couldn't work out why we would want to talk about the random minutiae of everyday life. I told him that when people haven't seen someone in a while they usually like to have a chat about what's been going on in their lives. All I got was a puzzled "Oh" before he went back to listening to his music.
I'm sure he would have understood if we'd been talking about something important, like vacuum cleaners. ;)
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