The 5 Topics of Sioux Falls Small Talk

I am not much of a small-talk person.

Years of mild social anxiety coupled with spending my entire youth in small-town Nebraska with the same basic group of people meant I didn't develop good small-talking skills.

I'm not necessarily shy or anti-social. I can talk your ear off about some things and engage in a deep conversation on many topics. But, the space between 'hello' and best friends can be a murky land for me.

I've gotten better over the years. Striking out into the world on my own forced me to get better at interacting with people.

I still envy my wife who can make friends with every person she meets, anywhere. However, I have written the internal software that allows me to run an external program that helps me small-talk almost like a regular human.

Since moving to Sioux Falls a little more than a decade ago, I've picked up on several generic topics of conversation that dominate the small talk of our small city.