Have you ever been trapped in an unwelcome, one-sided conversation? Ever needed to be rescued? Then you need Lunarbaboon's Son Signal.
This happened a lot at one library that I worked at. We worked out a system for freeing librarians from endless conversations like these.
I always had the opposite problem. I'd make up some innocuous white lie to get away, and my kid would "correct" me. Sheesh!
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Can you take out the "mentally ill" part and just say you had to do this when you worked in a library? It would be stigma free.
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