jabber jaws

[Brian]

i just made the mistake of picking up the phone without checking the caller id. Turns out it was my wife's aunt, who can talk your spleen out. I spent 15 minutes listening to her go on and on and on. I wrote my daughter a note to "Call out my name", but she wouldn't. Payback coming.

What's the psychology behind people who endlessly talk? I've have a few encounters with people who follow me out to the car, keep on talking while I sit down, put the keys in, ...... And nothing changes, it happens again. They don't understand what "I need to get going" means.

What's behind this? Why don't they notice people head for the door when they open up?

Any yakers here? Can anyone here talk for 15 minutes straight w/o any input from the other party?

[Babs]

giggle.

[Brian]

You mean this only happens to me? Why am I the lucky one.....

[woot]

You mean this only happens to me? Why am I the lucky one.....

I can definitely relate to it, but am drawing a blank on who it is that used to do it. I also wonder at those types or anyone else that think it's endearing to blather at people who aren't listening.

[UtahDan]

When I was at the U the lady who managed the property I lived at and all of her facial hair would intercept me all the time and talk, talk, talk. I think a lot these people are just lonely.

[Jarid in Cedar]

My aunt and our local pathologist(back me on this one ERC). they are not to be encountered without a good escape plan/alibi

[statman]

My MiL. And she does it in the most musical of German dialects - Schwaebish. I've had hour-long 'discussions' with her where I haven't said more than a dozen words.

[Brian]

i can understand lonely people, but I know several people who have families (including the lady last night), seemingly well adjusted, who talk to no end.
What's behind this need to endlessly talk? Even in the face of making obvious exit attempts?

[myboynoah]

My father is like that, and it's worse now that my mother has passed. My wife has accused me of abandoning her when we visit. I confess, I have in the past.

I don't know why this happens. He doesn't sense that others have tuned out.

He's lonely now and I love him, so I'll just listen.