This is something that annoys even my family members who are usually willing to put up with it or participate. Just imagine that you're reading your own article about something you care about and want to talk about and suddenly I'm going off not only on hiking, William James, (and the rest of the annoying James family), religious experiences, Sunday morning; but I am tying in Transcendentalism as well, and once I get started on THAT subject there's no telling when I'll stop.

"Please Sarah, I just want to eat my toast!" you say.