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Idle chit chat

I am noticing that I am losing patience with people.  Fast.  Last night we were at our kid's friends house waiting to pick up the child when a cold gust began blowing.  It is mid June in the northern hemisphere and it was late in the evening.  The occasion was the daughter was celebrating her birthday and is a friend of our offspring.

Among the waiting attendees were parents of their respective wards.  Most of Indian origin.  One dad remarked on some sort of derived analysis about the weather.  Idle chit chat is all.  I am not sure what to make of this anymore.  His comment while profoundly vague was frankly immaterial.  This planet will do whatever the heck it wants to do much to the chagrin of all the arrogant know it alls.  But in retrospect it was merely a way to make small talk.

I for some reason found that irritating.  Then another dude walked in to pick up his kid and instantly made a sweeping comment that all the previously standing desis must be in the IT sector.  I pointedly corrected him that I was not.   Again he might have made some vague attempt to interject himself in an otherwise bleak evening.  But to me it was a profoundly biased and pointless statement.

I need to start thinking about the 'moun wrat' aka vow of silence approach again.  Not to say much unless my life depended on it.  I do not need to counter someone's point of view simply because I think it is wrong.  Or a source of irritation however big or small.  If it does not threaten my existence (e.g. a jackass motorcycle rider causing a near collision on the highway due to their erratic driving)  I should be able to completely ignore the chaos around me.

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