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Murders make for poor dinner conversation.

I would imagine so.

~~Unless you eat dinner with my family.~~

Really. I invite my esteemed colleagues from the UMB medical department over, a lovely night at the opera, I choose an excellent wine and serve a fantastic meal around my table, and they must spoil the evening by talking about those gruesome murders from the local papers. It's unsettling, and frankly unappetizing.

Oh, I can imagine that is rather unpleasant. My mother worked for the DA's office in my city for a long while, so I grew up hearing about all the various criminals and such.

Oh? Do they talk about the cannibalistic killings in the Chesapeake region too?

And yet that always seems to be what we end up discussing...

We are such a morbid race, aren't we.

Taken from recent personal experience?

Obviously. I'm afraid only the most sordid and scandalous local events dominate even the finest dinner tables.

Because literature and the fine arts are such narrow topics.

Oh they open up to far more places than the subject of the Chesapeake ripper. And frankly I don't know how they can digest while on the topic. Usually my houseguests have little on their minds but medical science, the arts, they're such upper class prudes. Imagine them trying to discuss popular scandals. It's quite dull.

Discussing scandals properly does take a certain imagination. I can only imagine you invite them over as the only people with sensitive palates enough to fully appreciate the wine and food properly. Or, at least, one would hope that such snobbery followed education.

Don't I know it.

Don't you?

Actually, that would have been a better conversation sometimes.

I'd have t'agree. People focusin' on the most sordid of topics, damn shame.

Oh it's not the topic I object to. In fact a lot of people request my insight into a case like this as I have offered a lot in forensic psychiatric study. But honestly, at dinner?

Where it gets awkward-like is when th' topics of dinner and murder are irrevocably linked.

Right up there with car accidents and giving birth.

*shrug* Guess it depends on your occupation.

Hi there, Doctor guy!

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