There was the time I had to hunt down an employee to make a copy of a house key for me because they didn’t have any of the automatic machines and the other home improvement super store in the area which did have an automatic key making kiosk unfortunately did not have a functional automatic key making kiosk.

For 45 minutes, I tried to steer the conversation away to almost any topic besides the one he insisted on having about his favorite American football team, The Patriots. This guy was stopping the key duplication process just to look me in the eyes and tell me about The Patriots. He messed up his first 2 attempts at copying the key I was having made because he was too busy talking to me about The Patriots. I probably told him 10 times in the course of this episode that I don’t watch sports at all, don’t know the teams, the players, the rules, the seasons, and I have no interest in it. That didn’t dissuade his passion to discuss The Patriots with me at all.

Got home and of course the set of keys he made didn’t work.