Everyone in my family is well educated, which is why simple dinner chit-chat usually segues into an exuberant discussion chock full of sarcasm, wit and the occasional clash of opinions.
If you walk into any crowded machine room, chances are you'll catch chit-chat about "shebangs," slashes, dot-dots, root, pipes, ports, and dash-dash this and that.
Just think of all the hellos, good-byes and other unnecessary chit-chat you avoided.
Well, the chit-chat slowed down, the early nights became about sleep and the texts were requests to pick up milk on the way home.
After you've used that technique, then you just might have a bit of general chit-chat.A bit of fluff talk, like ‘How have you been?
After spending an hour in his shop drinking coffee and engaging in idle chit-chat, he decided, after consulting with his wife, to invite me upstairs for dinner with his family.
