Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.
i cant help but notice that the chocolate chips cookies you brought to the potluck yesterday had bad vibes. so i went through your cabinets while you were sleeping and checked out the chocolate chips you used. i mean they looked innocent on the surface, they were even fair trade certified. but i just couldn't shake that itching sense that sometning was off. i infiltrated the chocolate company's headquarters by posing as IT support. and you know what I found? the guy who designed the labels got a dui in 2007. so it turns out my instincts were right and you're a terrible person.
my culture is unique because we love food and dancing. we also value family and our religious tradition. when its the religious holiday people from my unique culture like to gather family together for food, and dancing.
It's crazy how certain Jews felt totally comfortable making antisemitic jokes and hardly ever mentioning their Judaism before all this shit happened, but now all of a sudden these disconnected Jews make themselves out to be the arbiters of all that is Jewish and only use their Judaism as an intellectual cudgel to batter those who call them out for participating in antisemitism.
Crazy how every person who considered small talk useless who I met throughout my life consistently turned out to be just as dull when we get to talking about what they consider “deep” topics.