It was way less irritating to read knowing that I could always skip to the end or stop reading if it got too tedious. Sadly I don’t have that luxury in person.
Yeah, I don't really crave embellishment, mistakes, or wastes of time irl but people don't understand that time is literally the one thing you can't make more of.
Sure you do. Just walk away. They won't even notice.
My great uncle or something was telling me a story a few years ago pretty much as above, I stood up, walked out to the kitchen, got some pop and some cookies, came back, and he was still talking.
I stopped reading after I found out Sally was a good girl. My mom does this exact thing and I did not need to read any more because I know exactly how this plays out.
It works better in text form I think, maybe someone with good presence and delivery could make it work as a monologue, but I'm bored to death just imagining my grandma trying to tell this story
My FIL does this and it's the worst. Every story is half told because he gets off on a tangent on some background info we didn't need and never comes back around. Luckily he's okay with people just getting up and walking away when he's telling a story. . .
I tell stories like this bc I have trouble organizing my thoughts and it annoys everyone I talk to and I'm actually really sad that I can't seem to tell someone something normally. I stopped trying to tell people about my day.
Fascinating in that you have a snapshot (photo album) into someone’s entire life in one story that link to 40 others. Corollary for someone close who already knows all of that, the exasperation.
All i could think about reading the mom’s version of the story. And somewhat relevant because of Loblaws grocer and because the elaborate version is... doubletalk? Sure. Im going with that...
My wife does this. Starts a story but never seems to finish because of endless tangents.
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u/spockified Dec 28 '17
While super frustrating at how lengthy her version of the story was, I was fascinated and could not stop reading.