In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.
We don't live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is often the price of trying to reach each other. It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them. We have given 'taking offense' a social status it doesn't deserve: it's not much more than a way of avoiding difficult conversations.
I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.
Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.
If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.
I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.
As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I'd ever be able to hack being single again.
You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."
