You're mid-sentence explaining why your job is slowly killing you, and they nod at exactly the moment their phone buzzes—so now you can't tell if they're empathizing with your existential dread or just got a notification from their banking app. By the time they look up, you've already decided you're not worth listening to and switched to commenting on the weather. They ask "wait, what were you saying?" and you say "nothing important," which is the most honest lie you've told all week.