I ask open ended questions trying to keep the conversation going and many times I get minimal answers.

"So what are you studying?"

"I'm doing my BA"

"Yikes... arts, sorry to hear that."

"Lol"

Or

"What's the best part of working at X?"

"I don't know"

Both these situations are dead ends I've hit.

So here I have two options,

  1. Ask another question and look like a fool with my dick in my hand or

  2. Don't even bother with the effort and move on.

This happens A LOT. WTF do I do?