Small Talk

         Every day when we see our friends we like to say hello or some other word to say hi. We like to make small talk with our friends to relax us.  According to the textbook, “Small talk is pervasive; all of us engage in small talk. Sometimes, we use small talk as a preface to big talk” (DeVito193). In my opinion, small talk is when we talk about some relaxed topic. We can say “How are you?” or another polite sentence to somebody; then we can begin our major topic.

            Sometimes people may violate the rules of small talk. For example, one day I talked with my good friend about what kind of food has good taste. We talked a lot about different foods and how to make them. We felt good with the conversation. Suddenly another person got in our conversation. She said, “We cannot think this way. Each kind of food has a different function. we should study how to make and keep their nutrition well. She talked a lot of about nutrition problems. She made our conversation like a nutrition class. During that conversation we felt bad.