Find the local-est of local issues to talk about and just start droning.
Something about stoplights, or trash service.
The more detail the better.
Tell about how you left a lamp out because you got a new one at 'The Ikea' and you just don't have room for one no more, and the trash collectors STILL haven't picked it up. And it looks stupid, because the lamp sitting by the dumpster looks like someone is sitting out there reading the newspaper, and of course no one sits out by the dumpster and reads the newspaper when they have a perfectly good recliner and a brand new lamp inside where it's warm and dry.
It's been cold 'round here lately, rainy too. Don't know why it's raining so much so early in the year. Playin' heck with getting your irises planted. Anyway, could you get someone to pick up that dad blamed lamp so our block doesn't look like a hipster hangout, because the hipsters are moving in already and it's a whole thing.
You get the idea.
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