[calex]

you should have just continued talking, hopefully about something more fun and engaging than "that's what people do sadly". fi, you've could said that you're clueless in the kitchen, and that you rely on the kindness of strange women to feed you - but that there was no excuse for her buying frozen shit. have to go with cockier stuff than the elderly ramble here, since she's on her way out and you are trying to engage her.

Still, it was a moving target and a longshot, i wouldn't beat myself too much over it.