What do you usually talk about when dining out at restaraunts?

It depends who I am dining with.

As long as the conversation isn’t inappropriate for your audience or disruptive to those around you, talk about whatever you want in your “indoor voice”.

My SO and I go to dinner several times a month and we talk about everything: our day, funny things that happened that week, current events, friends, family, the highs, the lows.

With friends, I guess it’s more of a “catching up” thing to go out together, and usually we get quite a few drinks. We talk about what’s been going on, maaaaayyybeee a little gossip, funny stories, work, etc.

In a more formal setting, I’m more reserved and may let the other person lead the direction of the conversation. However, if the person is warm and open, I’m less likely to be guarded myself. Especially after a couple of glasses of wine!

I was in a café, and two women were sitting together nearby. One of them was ranting about the Oklahoma City bombing and how the terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, had been nothing but an innocent victim of a corrupt government. McVeigh had never wanted to hurt anybody, but the actions of Bill Clinton, Janet Reno, etc. had forced this sweet young man’s hand. The government officials should have been arrested and imprisoned, not him.

I already knew that such comments had been mentioned on ultra-conservative talk radio, and that this woman was simply parroting what she’d heard. It was very eerie, however, to sit there and listen to her speak with such vehemence. Her lunch companion stayed very quiet and didn’t say a thing; I can only imagine how awkward and uncomfortable she must have been.

Anything and everything except sexual details and generally fairly quietly.

I’m allowed out tonight to a restaurant because I’m paying so your question is timely and I wont have to worry about what I say because it’s French.

My opening monologue is quintessentially a sit-down routine on Fluther, the people and the posts entitled pâté patter for five.

Ribaldry will doubtless feature prominently, along with super beings and sycophants, simultaneously slandering religion and politics which should entirely cover the main course in a warmth so palpable you could almost touch it.

Ennui go to dessert where each contestant will get to nominate the greatest faux pas committed by those assembled in the pronunciation of their selections so as to celebrate the seriousness of the anniversary.

Or imago tone it down a tad.

Work, family, vacation plans, places we’ve been, places we want to go, politics, local events, thoughts, feelings, emotions.