The faux question

Loose connection

I say something. You pick out a key word, rummage through your mind bin for something that is loosely connected to that key word and then off you go. You will take the conversation baton simply because you have something to add that adds nothing to what I, we, were talking about. Good conversationalists talk about the actual thing others are talking about until the subject dries up. If I am talking about planting trees. I don’t want to know about your cat that was stuck up a tree last year.