An elevator ride is helpful context for judging the length and depth of small talk.
Bumping into someone in the park, not so much.
The worst case scenario is they ask an open ended question like – how have you been? (Which is most likely going to happen) But then you have to quickly judge how much detail do you go into?
It’s been a rough few weeks and the honest answer would be – it’s been shit.
But do you want to open that can of worms now, with them? When maybe there was a chance that they were just being polite.
