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WARNING: LW IS OVER 50. MAY CONTAIN CHESTNUTS.
"my parents, who are vibrant, well-read, well-traveled and generally interesting people, tell me horror stories about work lunches where people spend one whole hour discussing the best way to chlorinate their pool."
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The sad truth is that, once the young hipsters stop posing and conforming to each other, they become an eclectic gaggle of diverse individuals. I suspect the pool maintenance conversation was in essence a kind of tribal ritual to allow the members of the tribe (i.e. the fellow empoyees) to listen to each other respectfully and demonstrate a mutually helpful attitude. But on the surface it looked like a bunch of drones talking about how to chlorinate a pool, how b-o-r-i-n-g.
