I was a little dismayed this time at how the conversation at the knittery devolved to losing weight and pretty much stuck there. Or perhaps I'm overly sensitized. Actually, my thought at the time was "well, that didn't take very long..." The woman who said the most apparently has a scary control-freak husband though, so there may be more going on than just an inability to come up with better conversational topics.
Ben and I were all edgy and post-modern at coffee, which worked as an antidote.