I can’t tell you what a pariah I’ve become when inserting an actual fact into an inane conversation fraught with gossip/speculation/glaring falsehoods by older relatives. And I’m certain that people of a certain age will jump on it, but it really is my older relatives who hate that, and want to stick to “something pleasant.”

(I’m not sure how crapping on their “friends,” celebrities and mutual acquaintances is pleasant, it’s agony for me to listen to their half-baked reasoning what’s happening behind closed doors, but…that’s what I have been told).