Weathering the Conversation

Randy Travis has a song with a line that goes like this:
"I'm gonna love you forever"
"Forever and ever amen"
"As long as old men sit and talk about the weather"
"As long as old women sit and talk about old men"
In my estimation, the women have a much more interesting topic of conversation. Unfortunately for men if we don't have a gun or a ball in our hand, we are forced to talk about the weather. But while on one hand, this seems a rather dry conversation, the phenomenon that produces this sort of meaningless talk, is wet with potentially interesting conversation topics. We end up talking about a shared experience. It's the first thing that we men want to talk about. Without waiting to analyze the conversation's potential interest factor, we blurt out a comment about the weather knowing that that's one thing the other participant has experienced. You have to give it to us males, all of us terrified by intimacy, with comments like, "Nice day today, huh?", we are trying to connect with people, and not just our toys. By the way, its real cold today.