Like A Deer Caught In Headlights

I'm reading The Shack. I know I'm way behind everyone else. I came across this today.

"...most folks would rather just hear what they are used to hearing, which is often not much of anything."

Do you have people like that in your life? Same conversations, same phrases, same reactions every single time you talk? When you try to mix it up and talk about something different they stare at you like a deer caught in headlights. It is SO frustrating. I find myself avoiding opportunities to share anything with these people. They want you to follow a little script they wrote years ago. And it is maddening.