The master of conversation

Right. If you are one of the people who have had read about my encounters with the real world, you may remember the date I had a few months ago with the picture of the movie Scream on a coaster. Well, I thought I'd try my luck again (he is actually cute, another engineer (wtf is it between me and physicists/engineers/mathematicians?)).

Well, I was right and wrong. Chemically, it is a hit although I am refraining from jumping someone's bones for the sake of it. The pheromones are a rocking but that does not mean there could be a successful relationship.

Let's just say that he is not the master of conversation and feels uncomfortable in silence. At one point, to fill the void, he came up with the gem: "So, over the past few months I've been sneezing a lot". How is one to respond? All I could muster was "that must be uncomfortable. Why's that?" Not that I gave a shit about his allergies, it just seems like he's the type of person who must speak incessantly.

We were walking through a park (en route to the lake shore) and he then mentioned another gem: "oh, looks like there's a wedding" when we passed a photo shoot for a wedding party. I had no retort other than to remain silent and wait for the next no-shit-sherlock moment.

My question to you. Why is it people feel the need to state the blatantly obvious? People do it all the time and it puzzles me. I'm sure I've done it at some point so I'm not saying I'm perfect, it just happens with such regularity that it makes me wonder.

"Ooooh, there's one of my feet"
"Aaaah, there's a tree"
"Wow. Bird. There's a bird"
"Oooh, there's one of my feet"

Are we regressing to being 3 year olds verbally and mentally? Where is the interesting conversation in the world?