Conversation starter for people who have zero intention of continuing the conversation.

You've been trapped at enough parties, meetings, and family gatherings to know exactly how this goes. Someone asks a polite question, you give a polite answer, and suddenly you're twenty minutes deep in a story nobody needed. This time, the screening happens before anyone opens their mouth.

Not rude, just honest about where your energy goes. Small talk is a tax you've decided to stop paying, and the people worth talking to already know how to skip the line. Everyone else gets a printed invitation to ask — and a very short answer.

Rebel Ink for the ones whose interest level is already at zero.