Idle chatter

I went into a chemist's yesterday and asked for some Clarityn Rapide and some anti-histamine eye drops. At the time that I did this, I had tears gushing from my obviously red and sore eyes and guess what the woman behind the counter said. She asked "Have you got hayfever?" No, really - she did! A recent trendy theory about autistic people claims that we find it difficult to understand smalltalk because we lack something called a theory of mind. Sometimes I think that the only reason I am baffled by smalltalk is that it is simply baffling.