Re:Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations
by skorpeon87 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:50PM
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I find the most frustrating conversations are with people who can't stop talking and who fail to distinguish what is or isn't important information for other people in the conversation.
> How was your flight?
> Oh it was great, I sat next to a man named Joe Smoe, wait no I think his name was Joe Blow... no he said his name was Jim Blow... wait no his name was Jim Smoe... he said he was bus driver.. or was it a truck driver?...
How do you politely say "I'm never going to meet this man, and you'll never meet him again, so who cares what his name was? Get on with the story!" I know some people who can waffle around like this for 10 minutes easily, trying to remember a detail that nobody else could conceivably care about. By the time they remember the detail everybody else has already forgotten the rest of the story anyway.
Re:Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations
by janeerie on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:11PM
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Oh, so you’ve met my father-in-law?
Re:Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations
by j33zusjuice on Saturday December 03, 2022 @05:40PM
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I say, “it’s okay, I’m not going to remember their name anyway.” Usually it gets them to move on.
That is a good analogy with throwing a ball in the conversation. Imagine ball sports where only one person is participating. That's what a one-sided conversation feels like.