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janx

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5. Yes, and I have been guilty of it myself when talking to customer service.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Fri Sep 8, 2017, 10:10 PM

Sep 2017

But that's because I get impatient with their scripted questions that don't pertain to the problem at hand.

Like you, I'm used to the social give and take of conversation. There's a time for speaking and a time for listening. Some people will interrupt very rudely to go on into some didactic speech--on and on and on. And yeah, this is recent.

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Have you noticed people interrupting more? [View all] underpants Sep 2017 OP

Maybe too many people have been mimicking Chris Mathews. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #1

YES!!!! Now that you mention it! LisaM Sep 2017 #2

i interrupted a good customer at work today clu Sep 2017 #3

I'd say the last 8-10 years underpants Sep 2017 #16

...Interrupts...Yo, Underpants, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, FSogol Sep 2017 #4

Yes, and I have been guilty of it myself when talking to customer service. janx Sep 2017 #5

parenting would have to account for most of it clu Sep 2017 #7

Customer service I don't have a problem with underpants Sep 2017 #18

No. Nevernose Sep 2017 #6

I just moved out of NY this year customerserviceguy Sep 2017 #8

OT, but... ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #9

Friday night ruminations underpants Sep 2017 #14

Well, perhaps we are willing to put up with it GulfCoast66 Sep 2017 #10

Exactly. I'm a Southerner, but also a hillbilly. Interrupt a hillbilly and you might get shot. Glorfindel Sep 2017 #11

You hillbillies are an enigma! GulfCoast66 Sep 2017 #12

You're right. I spent 18 years in south Mississippi and remained a stranger in a strange land Glorfindel Sep 2017 #13

Point taken underpants Sep 2017 #15

I just wanna say...oh, did I interrupt you? Well...I just wanna say... MineralMan Sep 2017 #17