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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not a big one, but my MIL have exactly five conversation topics, on repeat:
1) Headaches; who has one, what caused it, what might cure it
2) Jim, do you remember Name? You know, Name, the Person who did the Thing? No? You know Name. Well anyway, Name died.
3) Weather!
4) Traffic!
5) We’re thinking about building a cabin on our land in West Virginia. We’ve been looking at plans. I think we’re going to move forward in the spring. (They’ve been saying this for at least 16 years with no action.) [/quote]

I'm with ILs, not my mom, this Thanksgiving, but my mom loves #2. She is also a fan of telling me protracted stories about running into people I went to high school with (I am 45), telling me extremely banal details about their lives, and then giving me their current phone number and encouraging me to reach out to them. These are never people I was actually friends with in high school (I am already in touch with those people), it will be like some random person who graduate two years after me. She's like "you should go out for a drink with them!" I am married, I have children, I have friends. But it's very important to her that I "touch base" with "Kelly, she played first clarinet in the orchestra after you graduated? Her mom works for the realtor we used when we bought the lake house! You should see her! You should go hang out!"[/quote]

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