agree with drethelin. even if this were true temporarily there is a solution. if it were true permanently, the solution is to be less boring.

(either actually do more interesting things that you can talk about, or generate a list of interesting topics to talk about that you know interest you - then when you get in the situation; look up the list and ask about one of them. I.e. what do you think of effective altrusim? how far off is the singularity? etc.)