The weather was perfect, the setting glorious and the newlyweds beamed with happiness. I was thrilled to be a guest at a recent country wedding.The day was going swimmingly until I found myself cornered by an obnoxious guest. His idea of chit-chat with me, a perfect stranger, amounted to making inappropriate comments about the bride's generous proportions, while shovelling canapes into his mouth.It's a situation that will sound horribly familiar to many, especially at this time of year. Small talk — the featherlight conversations we strike up with people we don't know when we are yoked together at gatherings — can be a social minefield. At times, it can be fun and diverting. At others, frankly, it's hell.
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