Omg, I hate this feeling.
If Iโm drunk I just canโt handle it, and end up attempting to truncate what they are saying with a graceful and quick demonstration of my understanding to move things along. Mixed results ensue.
My partner does this all the time. Unfortunately, theyโre often completely wrong about what I was trying to say. Suddenly weโre having two completely different conversations simultaneously.
If they didnโt interrupt you would still be having two conversations since they misunderstood what you were trying to say, but it would take longer to catch on.
Iโm talking about situations where my meaning would become clear if I werenโt interrupted before I finished what I was saying.
Itโs fine, though. Iโm learning to front-load my main points. Instead of trying to say โHey, I know we said weโd clean the basement this weekend, but I think itโs more important that I spend that time fixing the car,โ and getting interrupted with thoughts about the basement before Iโm able to mention the car, I try to say โIโd like to work on the car this weekend. I think the basement can wait.โ Takes practice, though.
I can not nod any slower.
Itโs even worse when they start to stutter or loose their train of thought.
You guys are having conversations where someone gets to the point at the beginning?
I usually get a meandering barely tangential story that is supposed to be context but is irrelevant and gets in the way of communicating their simple point.
โsnooggums, are you able to take off work tomorrow? I was walking the dog and ran into Cindy. You know Cindy, Bobโs daughter? She went to Kansas State and majored in chemistry, but was never that into it. Anyway, so Cindy was talking about how they painted their house last year and the contractor wasnโt someone you would want to work with because when she talked to them he said that he wasnโt sure that the work was going well and he wanted to follow up to discuss the work with him. But then he said that it was ok and it all worked out. On the way back the dog had a limp, can you take her to the vet?โ
Sorry, you have to picture a similar meandering explanation for something as that whole story has filled my brain for the morning.
snooggums, are you able to take off work tomorrow? I was โฆ
No.
There you go
Im more on the
โI need you to repeat that second half because something you said in the first half sent me down an entirely different line of thinking and i stopped listening to you and only pretended toโ
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