Had a conversation with someone at work yesterday. The person wanted to know about my vacation. Or brag about their FitBit. Or complain about money. Of all three. I made my best effort to commiserate.
She: "How was your vacation?"
Me: "Great, we went camping and I let the phone battery completely drain."
She: (lack of comprehension) "Okay..., did you do something interesting?"
Me: "Yeah, some high altitude trekking."
She: (comprehension returning "Sounds awesome. How high did you get?".
Me: "Dunno, on the topo map it looked like around 11,500 feet."
She: "You have a FitBit, right? It would give you all of this great information about your pace and heart rate, and stuff."
Me: "I'm kinda old-fashioned on the fitness thing. Going up was a bit challenging, but the views more than compensated for the effort."
She: "But a FitBit would really help you. I have increased my daily steps since I got mine. Did you take any pictures?"
Me: "Sure did, took some time bracketing my shots; my camera tends to overexpose, but I put it on full manual and got much better color saturation with under exposition by one F-stop."
She: "Whaa? Like, your iPhone?"
Me: "No, my DSLR. It's kinda heavy, but totally worth it for the close-ups with wide aperture setting. But enough about me. What have you been up to lately?"
She: "We went to Disneyland, and it was way too crowded, and the lines were long, and the kids had to pee, and now have to pay off all those credit cards, and we are, like, totally broke. I couldn't believe how expensive the t-shirts were."
Me: "Sounds rough. Say what, I've got a meeting in a couple of minutes. Shall we take a look at your selfies tomorrow?"