Listen a bit more attentively and try to find the value of the story to the teller. Just because we're used to being entertained whenever we choose doesn't mean we have to be dicks about it.
I pull out the 20 oz bubba container that I prepared for this exact with warmish water and drop a roofie into it so I pass out and the speaker is none the wiser
If they follow me to the hospital I substitute the roofie for cyanide
I used to change the channel but now most of what I watch is streaming so I just hit the back button and find something else or simply turn off the televisor.
This can happen a lot at work. I learned to just say I'm busy and don't have time which is usually true. People doing real work understand, if you don't understand I probably don't like you enough to care.
Real-time (in person or on the phone), Either take control of conversation, start forcing story with questions (not saying this is good manners, i just cant help it) Or make excuse or become fake ill or become real ill and leave.
If have to read/view/experience something due to obligation: Ignore obligation Or make excuses Or forget/delete Or force story in person f2f at my choice of speed Or evade so many times they quit Or behave so that they give up in me Or plead mental illness/migraine Or make them hate me and hope i die
In last resort sit thru it with teeth gritted fists clinched filled with rambo thoughts, not listening, and interrupt constantly, loudly, to repeat, forcefully, speaker's last phrase for emphasis, thus destroying flow and showing "empathy", while still not following storyline. Hi, Mom! I'm trying!
If am forced/guilted into enduring this horror for real, interruptions and disruptions are Mandatory.
They.will.tell.their.story.my.way.
Possibly feel guilty later, likely not.
Mom tried to teach me manners and empathy and patience. Sigh. Sociopath? You make the call.
Btw, a few persons, like everyone who's met me, think i tell horrible boring endless stories to others all the time and Make.them.listen. My so-called friends, ya know?
I do my best to avoid talking to people so this situation doesn't come up often, and when it does I'm most likely the one rambling incoherently.
@nogoodwithnames Take a look at my suggestion it might help
Look for a fast forward button.
@KDemo
Sometimes i wish that this actually worked:
scroll to the bottom to see if somebody summarized joelmw's comment
@Lotsofgoats literal lol
Listen a bit more attentively and try to find the value of the story to the teller. Just because we're used to being entertained whenever we choose doesn't mean we have to be dicks about it.
@cercopithecoid psssssht.
Kinda depends on who is doing the talking.
I pull out the 20 oz bubba container that I prepared for this exact with warmish water and drop a roofie into it so I pass out and the speaker is none the wiser
If they follow me to the hospital I substitute the roofie for cyanide
I used to change the channel but now most of what I watch is streaming so I just hit the back button and find something else or simply turn off the televisor.
This can happen a lot at work. I learned to just say I'm busy and don't have time which is usually true. People doing real work understand, if you don't understand I probably don't like you enough to care.
Chew off an arm.
Whip out pictures of my grandchildren before they begin to speak. Getting old has some benefits that still do not outweigh getting old.
@cranky1950 Yea I whip out something too, usually gets them to leave...always gets me fired.
@MrMark Intolerance is getting to be a problem.
@cranky1950 says the man with an onion on his belt.
til: retcon
Scroll back to the top and click either BUY IT. or MEH.
Not really, but I would like to try it one time.
Scroll to the bottom and answer the poll.
I close the latest meh video window.
I try to reflect/summarize to move things along. Doesn't always work
I'd have to go pee really quickly and excuse myself politely.
@m0therg00se What is the order of events there?
@mcanavino
@m0therg00se
Re order of events....
Visualizing!
Let's say i have a preference.
Not real-time, i'm gone.
Real-time (in person or on the phone), Either
take control of conversation, start forcing story with questions (not saying this is good manners, i just cant help it)
Or
make excuse or become fake ill or become real ill and leave.
If have to read/view/experience something due to obligation:
Ignore obligation
Or make excuses
Or forget/delete
Or force story in person f2f at my choice of speed
Or evade so many times they quit
Or behave so that they give up in me
Or plead mental illness/migraine
Or make them hate me and hope i die
In last resort sit thru it with teeth gritted fists clinched filled with rambo thoughts, not listening, and interrupt constantly, loudly, to repeat, forcefully, speaker's last phrase for emphasis, thus destroying flow and showing "empathy", while still not following storyline. Hi, Mom! I'm trying!
If am forced/guilted into enduring this horror for real, interruptions and disruptions are Mandatory.
They.will.tell.their.story.my.way.
Possibly feel guilty later, likely not.
Mom tried to teach me manners and empathy and patience. Sigh. Sociopath? You make the call.
Btw, a few persons, like everyone who's met me, think i tell horrible boring endless stories to others all the time and Make.them.listen. My so-called friends, ya know?
@f00l Sorry, I only made it through the second line of this.
@sammydog01
See last line, your arrogant insensitive self-absorbed clot!
@f00l Sheesh. I went back and read every.single.word. Happy?
@sammydog01
Hey it worked!
Sucker! Yuk yuk.
(Why do people avoid me?)