do you ever have those moments when you're starting a conversation with someone and they start going on and on and on and on until you realize they're pretty much just talking to the air and you're just the poor sap who's gotten drawn into the other person's need to ramble incessantly about whatever stupid little banal thing is on their mind, of course without them giving you an opportunity to get a word in edgewise?

how do you diffuse this situation? do you just patiently sit through it? do you find a way to excuse yourself? do you call them on their rambling? do you make their head explode with your mutant power? what's your technique?

I, unfortunately, work with a woman that does this all day, every day. I have now just started to look at my computer and ignore. She eventually gets the picture.

i worked with a woman who would talk my ear off so bad that one night, when i was just NOT in the mood for it, i had to finally say, "you're talking to me so much tonight that you're making my ears hurt. can you talk to someone else for a while?"

WHATS A BUBBLE OF VORTEX?

BucketOfBouncyBalls said:

NVM
HOT DAMN IGOT A NEW ORGNAME BRB

Oh I wish I had dark side Force powers....

TMPletz said:

i don't think it would do much good. i think excessive babbling IS a dark side force power.

BucketOfBouncyBalls said:

you know what?

Anxiety said:

I excuse myself.

Ace said:

any particular line you use that you find especially successful?

Anxiety said:

I say I have to go to the bathroom

BucketOfBouncyBalls said:

Howdy, Bucket!

Anxiety said:

Depends on the situation, but - yeah - saying you've got to hit the loo works just fine.

My mother does this.





I love her but I don't need to hear about her friend's husband's uncle's esophagus cancer and how that makes his prostate feel. My mother's turning into an old lady sterotype and it's driving me crazy.

CarrieMpls said:

sometimes i want to just interject, "LET'S TALK ABOUT BALLOONS!!!"

no.

Imago777 said:

aha! i found a perpetrator! quit hating, MOTORMOUTH MABEL!!!

Anxiety said:

You like it Back Stage BETTY!

Anxiety said:

Yeah, uh-uh, ok, yep, uh-huh, ok

that JUST fuckin happened to me!!

Started talking about a Howling Wolf song I had playing the next thing i know we're going through the history of music to world poverty to wanting people to bitch about the tax on gas!

Anxiety said:

I usually make their head explode with my mutant powers?

BucketOfBouncyBalls said:

coooool

i just ask ..after listening to them run on for a while

" are you done yet ? "







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[Edited 8/11/05 19:28pm]

jerseykrs said:

still stuck on that threesome you had, i see.