They intrude into ordinary life.
At times, I have had five+ people seated in my house and nobody is talking to anyone else. Can you perhaps guess why?
Maybe similar things have happened to you?
It's so desperately easy to get drawn in.
Wouldn't this unpalatable behaviour once have been referred to as 'the height of rudeness?'
What has changed?
If it were just passers-by whom we hardly know - maybe that would have been just about okay but it's almost everyone you know - family included.
It can even happen when eating!!
What I really resent most is that the mighty tentacles of this horror, have even drawn me into its evil web on several occasions!
