I’ve no desire for small talk, couldn’t care less. It bores me.
I should probably work on this I can come across as quite cold sometimes 
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An example of the second would be meeting your wife’s sister’s new boyfriend for the first time and they leave you alone briefly. Not really appropriate to entirely turn your back on him, but also not good to launch into a spiel detailing his many physical flaws.

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In that case I suggest: Ask questions to learn useful tidbits about the other person. The key to strong and useful smalltalknis entirely in the ability to ask question and get the other person talking, then choose how deep you want to dive into their answers based on the setting.
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