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They think they already understood.
It doesn’t matter. I’m going to ask a question to see if I understand. I’m paying way more attention than you think and trying to assemble a puzzle. If we do it interactively it’ll stick. If you just wanna talk, tho, tell me to stfu and I’ll let you go off.
I’m going to ask a question to see if I understand
It’s probably gonna be about something I was just about to explain before you cut me off lol
Depends on the subject, but it’s 50/50. If someone prefers to repeat themselves a lot then meh.
My Dad has a strong tendency to talk in circles, slowly working to his point like one of those penny rolling machines you used to see everywhere, and it drives me round the bend sometimes to the point where I end up having to prompt him to just get to the point
My dad and my wife begin telling their anecdote and it finally involves me in having a mental and emotional breakdown trying to figure put their point.
I used to fight them initially into telling the point in the few seconds to no avail. These days, I just tune in enough to listen every 10th word.
My doctor says I don’t have ADHD but this happens to me a lot. Then when I explain things, I explain things overly complex because I assume that since people are so bad at explaining things to me that they’re not going to understand it when I explain things to them.
Especially when they drag their point out for dramatic effect but the point was so glaringly obvious that it comes off as smug on top of the tonguebiting you have to do to not just torpedo their pathetic attempt at tension-building.
Yeah, exactly. I mean I get that you are supposed to let other people finish talking.
Though, I must say, a LOT of the time it just feels like they’re wasting my time, while I got actual work to do.
I sometimes finish the sentence for them to speed things along. It’s a bad habit of mine and I try not to be rude about it. Hopefully it just comes across as understanding and supportive rather than usurping the conversation.
everyone hates it, and no, you don’t know what people are about to say all the time.
I’m usually right about 60% of the time with strangers, though I’m intentionally not finishing the sentence aloud.
With friends and coworkers it’s usually that we’ve forgotten a common word somehow and just appreciate the other person remembering it for us.forgetting a word is totally different
It prevents the sentence from continuing which makes everyone want to either leave the conversation or try to “help out”. Same principle.
I really hate when people interrupt what i’m saying before i finish my train of thought, so i try not to do that to others. Instead i just suffer in silence as they meander for what feels like forever and get increasingly annoyed at them
This only makes it a million times more frustrating when i wait for them to completely finish their points, and then get interrupted as soon as i start speaking.
How it feels like to grammar.
I’ve learned to be patient because sometimes I might not have gotten it.
But still accurate when they ramble about completely unrelated crap that has nothing to do with the point because I can only handle so much at once and the pointless details are making it harder for me to stay on track with the actual point. Like I don’t care if Julia was married three times and her first name was Bob and her second was Mark and she has three children and drives a Subaru when being told that she needs help with something that doesn’t involve any of those things.
This is inaccurate, planks are way easier!
I just tell them alright and start procrastinating doing whatever they want from me, just to forget it within an hour or so…
