I'm a big blabber mouth!
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
United States
July 27, 2007 5:40pm CST
I hate to admit this, but sometimes I am a big blabber mouth! If you don't know what a blabber mouth is, then let me explain. A blabber mouth is someone that can't keep a secret and tends to say the first thing on her mind. For some reason I don't often use the censor button when I am speaking. And, sometimes this translates to my writing. Needless to say, I'm a little more than candid when it comes to posting on My lot.
I'm usually that way in real life too, much to the chagrin of my spouse who is not a very confrontational person. I am not sure why things come out that way, they just do. Lately, I have wished that I could install an edit button on my mouth. Or, at least pass all my words through a filter before they come out of my mouth.
So, now you know! Not that it was any big secret. Most of my friends already know this about me.
So, how about you? Are you the type of person that says what is on their mind, without thoughts of consequence? Do you wish that you were less candid? Have family members complained about your forthright nature? Please share.
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@DanaMark (807)
• United States
28 Jul 07
No, I am just the opposite. I don't say enough of what is on my mind. Later on I think of things I could have said. I wish I could be more spontaneous and not so afraid of conflict. I'm always afraid I will offend someone. I put up with people offending me all the time, but I'm scared to say anything back. I'm working on it, but a lifetime habit is hard to change.
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@navtech (1773)
• India
28 Jul 07
Dear beautyqueen26, My wife is a blabber mouth. She never consider the consequences of talking. She just vomit whatever she thinks. While talking to people, she will not allow them to talk. She will go on telling them about her and family and also do not consider whether the opposite party is listening or not to her conversation. I told her many times, considering before uttering any words. You said the following wrong things to the x person. Do you know what are the consequences etc., She never bother about it. When I tell her she will not listen but start argument. So I stopped telling. She remains only blabber mouth even today.
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@makingpots (11915)
• United States
28 Jul 07
Oh I am sorry to hear that you live with that. I find it very hard to be around people like that. My husband and I call it running constant reruns of the ME show for their own enjoyment of hearing it over and over.
I do not mean any direct offense to your wife as I have not even met her.
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@makingpots (11915)
• United States
28 Jul 07
No, not a blabber mouth here. I tend to lean in the other direction. I often find myself later thinking of things I wish I had said. Some people can speak their mind with ease and eloquence. I, unfortunately, can not and have learned the hard way. So I tend to hold my tongue until I have something that I really want to say and even then, if I think it wont help anything to say it, I just wont.
But you bring up an additional good point. I am still deciding how I feel this translates into my writing.... Especially here at myLot which I feel is a whole different ballgame.
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@raychill (6525)
• United States
28 Jul 07
I typically don't think before I speak. Which isn't always a good thing because I say things I shouldn't. I don't consider myself a blabber mouth though. My parents definitely hate this habit of mine and it's been known to get me in trouble every so often for this however, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
I guess I just think honesty is the best policy :)
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@gmakesmoney (2923)
• United States
28 Jul 07
I can't keep a secret, not even my own! I try but I always have to tell at least one person or it will drive me nuts. I often say what is on my mind to the people in my life which often gets me into trouble as they view me as being a little blunt. I'm just not one to sugar coat things and they know this, I'm not the person you run to unless you want to hear the truth. Yet they still end up shocked. Go figure.
@kabukii (88)
• Brazil
28 Jul 07
Sometimes when I'm upset I speak without caring at all of what I'm saying, and that's really bad indeed cause I hurt other people's feelings, and I'm a forgetfull one so I just don'r remember what I said and this makes everything worse. Right now I'm just trying to keep my mouth shut while I'm angry.
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@Zelmarq (12585)
• Cebu City, Philippines
28 Jul 07
Hello there beautyqueen!
I am like that, though I have realized that its not a good habit and have tried and struggled to stop it as soon as I can.
I have tried my best to keep quite, I know I should learn how to keep secrets coz if not its also hard for people not to trust you with their secrets.
Its not good to be known as a blabber mouth, its bad to be called such.
So one lesson learned here, let us allow ourselves to be trusted and not say anything that comes to mind.
happy mylotting my friend.
@jc_star10 (953)
• Indonesia
28 Jul 07
I said things or write things that come out in my mind too. But when it comes to secret, I keep it very well. All my friend's secret never out from my mouth. I don't know why, it's just instantly. Like a warning dialogue in computer, my head warns me right away, if I almost spill out other people's secret. As long as those secrets did not hurt other people, I will keep it. I guess you don't have to worry about being a blabber mouth. You only need to learn to keep a mind when it comes to secrets especially other people's secret that they trust in you. If not, you will be not be trusted by other people.
@mobhomeir (7558)
• Philippines
12 Feb 11
It is seldom for someone to admit her/his one of worsts attitude and I appreciate you for that. Yes, don't you know that we (my family) were having a family problem because of a blabber-mouthed woman? Yes, and am serious.
She's the cause of an extra burden we felt...
In your case, I think you that you are unlike in some other woman like you would never realize or would not accept that they are blabber mouth.
Again, I appreciate you for that..
You can minimize it my friend because you know you are..but you can never take that away from you totally because it is like a stripe of a tiger whatever you do to scrape it you can't because the stripe reaches underneath his skin...
Good attituce (of accepting it)
Mobhomeir here..
@mobhomeir (7558)
• Philippines
12 Feb 11
my apology for some grammar problem..." the mind is right but the fingers are not"
