The weather, of course, helps out amazingly when you are meeting
people for the first time, because there is nearly always more or
less weather going on somewhere and practically everybody has ideas
about it. The human breakfast is also a wonderfully good topic
to start up during one of those lulls. Try it yourself the next
time the conversation seems to drag. Just speak up in an offhand
kind of way and say that you never care much about breakfast--a
slice of toast and a cup of weak tea start you off properly for
doing a hard day's work. You will be surprised to note how things
liven up and how eagerly all present join in. The lady on your
left feels that you should know she always takes two lumps of sugar
and nearly half cream, because she simply cannot abide hot milk,
no matter what the doctors say. The gentleman on your right will
be moved to confess he likes his eggs boiled for exactly three
minutes, no more and no less. Buckwheat cakes and sausage find a
champion and oatmeal rarely lacks a warm defender.
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