How to Quickly Change a Boring Conversation Topic Without Anyone Noticing

In three years, the method hasn’t failed me once.

I enjoy talking to people. But sometimes, I’m just sick and tired of a topic and want the other person to shut the hell up. Some people don’t notice when they’ve hijacked a conversation and overstrained your patience and goodwill. They keep diving in while everybody has already tuned out.

Whether your friend tells you about their newborn for the 523rd time this week, you find yourself in the middle of a heated political discussion going nowhere, or the talk at the dinner table takes a turn for the worse — sometimes, you’re so desperate for a topic change you’d even discuss rocks and knitting.

But changing a topic isn’t always easy, especially if you’re dealing with a motormouth in the highest gear. The good old run to the bathroom works well but you can’t use it too often or you’ll end up discussing diarrhea, which won’t be a pleasant conversation either. And you don’t want to storm off every time some knucklehead talks too much. You want to take the conversation back into your own hands.

Three years ago, I was at a party. My friends and I had hit just the right level — slightly buzzed but still standing straight. We hadn’t met in a year and enjoyed each other’s company outside, smoking weed and talking shit. It was a merry round of healthy banter and hearty laughs — at least until this guy showed up.

I can’t for the life of me remember his name or what he said. All I know is that he talked too much about stuff that wasn’t too interesting without any sign of stopping or giving others a chance to chime in. Finally, one of my friends managed to slip in a question between two of his sentences.

“Can you freeze bread?”

What? I looked at him with astonishment. Judging by the looks on my friends’ faces, they didn’t know what to say either. Of course you can freeze bread. Why shouldn’t you?

“I don’t think so,” he said. What ensued was a short but heated discussion about freezers, physics, and bakery products. In the end, we settled on the fact that you can indeed…

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