Two people, familiar but not friends, met in the street and began to chat.

”The world’s gone mad” they said.

As one of them spoke about how it was that the world had gone mad, the other one gradually realised that she probably had a different concept of sanity to her conversation partner.

Where to go in the conversation from there?

Find the common ground? Challenge the ideas? Change the subject?

She briefly tried to find the common ground. That seemed like hard work for an idle chat. So she changed the subject.

But it turned out that even the British weather wasn’t safe ground anymore.

”Anyway, I’ve got to get the kids up for school”, she said.

“Must Dash”.