Lost in Misinterpretation

Do you ever experience this? The conversation leads nowhere and you are scrambling to say something meaningful but some mediocre uninspired stereotype slips your tongue. You want to disappear in shame but your interlocutor lights up with a sudden passion, taking your mistake as a new life motto.  You continue afraid to offend your interlocutor by apologizing for saying nonsense (since he seems to have taken it to the heart). And it goes on and on in excited tones...

I inspire people to create what I despise