Today's OneWord: Derailed

I had tried desperately to keep the talking light at the dinner table, but the conversation about trains and makeshift tool sets quickly derailed into an argument about the United States' crumbling infrastructure, which then haphazardly spiraled into a shouting match about the minimum wage, which ultimately resulted in my mumbling an "Excuse me" from my seat and heading to the bathroom as soon as my aunt started howling about all the "illegals" coming in to take "Americans' hard-earned" jobs.

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