Get To The Point Will You!!

My husband and brother in law do that all the time. It takes them 20 minutes to tell me a 2 minute story. Sometimes I tell them to get to the point, sometimes I just look at them and roll my eyes. It doesn't really matter though, they do it the next time they start to tell something so, I just let it go.

My husband will begin a story, and then have to make sure it's very detailed. He'll say something like "I was walking down to the store... You know that store that's over by the school?" Uh yeah, unless the store is the point of the story, it really doesn't matter which one it is.. so why bother?

I think that you must have heard my Mom speaking somewhere.. Exactly the same way she does every time..Narrates all the happenings with microscopic detail.. and adds lot of gestures to it. But that has become their way of summarizing things. Initially i got frustrated, but now i appreciate her, because the pains she take to make the things fully explained to us,making extra care.. not to miss out a small thing. Take care friend.

OH! I am SO guilty of that. Even though the timeline thing bugs the cr@p out of me, I will start telling a story, then pretty soon, I am so far away from the point, I forgot what the point was when I started the conversation. For instance, I will do much like your dad (and my dad) does (hmmmmmmmmm is it an inherited trait?) because he once told me that when he was a kid... oh crap see there I go .. So I will start a funny story about going to the bank yesterday.. or was it Tuesday... wait Tuesday i didn't go to the bank.. OK it was yesterday . So I tell them that I had to deposit money.. then I have to back track to a year or 2 ago to tell them how I aquired the money and why it took so long to get that money, and what happened over the last two years (totally unrelated as to how I got the money) .. by he time make it back to the present time and back to the original point.. I will often end my story with.. "crap.. now I forgot the whole point" Then my friends are p!ssed because they just realized I wasted the last 30 minutes of their lives. What was your question again?

I m very much afraid that im a bit like that myself!I start off on here,and before I know it I have gone off at a tangent,and gone all around the roses to get to the point!Im not sure if its the inquisitive mind thingy..or old age kicking in...but I can only apologise for doing it!Hubby is worse than me..and that takes some beleiving!he will take an age to get to the crux of the matter and then he will completely forget what the matter was!Its not done intentionally,but we just love to ramble,and ramble we do!

This always happens with me and my brother when we are talking about my parents . I will tell him around a 10 min story and then need advice, and he will say sis come again . His reasons always are because he is busy, or in the middle of doing something like watching tv Also, with my mom it always turns into an all night show and just with a simple story . My point always goes out the window and around the corner .

Lol I can be like that sometimes if I am really honest Not all the time but sometimes I don't know if I have done it to you yet lol probably have as I do not even notice when I do it

My ex-s father was a wonderful man, but when he told a story, he embellished it and told much more then needed plus he talked r e a l l y ssssslllllllllooooooooowwwww. You wanted to reach down in his throat and pull the words out. He did not repeat himself though. Now my father, will repeat and repeat and repeat and if told that he repeats himself he gets angry and asks who he is hurting by repeating himself,

Everytime I talkedto Kat I deal with this very thing. I have to ask 20 questions to get to the bottom of something or she wantsto tell me a long involved story, usually to cover her butt about whatever it was she did. It is extremely fustrating to say the least. I have tried to keep my cool when she does this but one of these days i am going to snap and tell her get to the point!!!

OMG YESSSSSSSSSS!!!! and it drives me insane!! My mom does it to me. Her mom used to do it to her and she'd gripe and complain to me about it and now that my grandmother is gone, she's doing the exact same thing to me!! UGH!! Even if I've told her "you've told me about it" she'll go and tell me all about it again!! My ears just want to fold up and close up so bad but of course they don't and I'm going uh huh, uh huh, yeah yeah, that's good mom all the while I'm rolling my eyes and exasperating.....

Lol, I am surrounded by these people in my own home. One of them is my eldest daughter, whenever she tells me a story she takes along time to say one simple thing, she always says and then......and then........, lol. One time my partner counted how many times she said and then in a phone call conversation, it was around 20 times. But he is not one to laugh, as he also tells long drawn out stories, the worst thing is I have heard them all before most of the time. I have heard that many crocodile stories, lol and boxing stories that I am all storied out. I am definatly not one of them, it does frustrate me. But I always listen, on the odd occassion I might say I have heard this one before. What you need is one of these parrots that say yeah, yeah, so you don't have to be on the other end of the phone, lol.

gemini rose oh yes IU had a cousin who would ramble on and on afe ter she had said oh I have the most interesting happen to me, then she would start with the bragging,her son was the smartest kid who lived, her daughter graduated magna c*m laude, c8m laude and sUM on her husband had just been promoted to vice president, he had just bought her a mink coat, and hey wait what the hell was the interesting thing you were going to tell me, then she looks at me like I was stupid and says, honey I have to go now. you tell me about your most interesting thing that happened to you the next time I come." oh the urge to strange. arg arg argm

OMG! That's my brother. He does this to me whether he is talking to me on phone, in person or by email. Drives me absolutely crazy. It shouldn't take the same amount of time to tell me a story as it did to live it. Just give me the bulleted version.

Lol... I can relate to that... My mom used to do this all the time... I went to visit her on Christmas one year & when I walked in, she looked little tired... I asked her how she was feeling & her answer turned in to 3 hour story... I stopped paying attention after 15 minutes...

I get lots of people like this every now and then and I hate this. If my family member or friends do that I can tell them that tell me what the main point is. But to other people I can't tell them like that. So, I just have to bare and wait until the end. By the way I am not one of them:).

LOL Been there , done that and designed the t-shirt and I have to say it is a close contest between my Gran and my son but my son is definitely the worst! xxx

not exactley like that, but my mother in law will tell you something she is exctied about or finds real improtant, and she would repeat the same thing she just said over and over in differnt words, it gets kind of annoying but i just sit there and say yup uh huh, and whatever.

I know many people like this. They will talk for just about anything else than what they need to tell you. They cant focus on the thing they wanna say, and cant realize that what they are saying isnt useful for me. I see it much at elderly people.They start with sth to say in mind, then they just cant speak about it. It is very annoying, but i wouldnt tell to an elderly person to rush and tell me what is really important and stop talking about the rest.

Yeah, actually I also have such head-aching problem when talking with those people who like to shoot the bush. They just can't hit the point directly!! And guess what I will say? So what's the point, haha. I think it will be direct enough to remind them to summary the key point, but not recall all the details that just has little relation with the topic. You've gotton away. This will be another way to pull them back from their eloquent description of things happend three days before.

Yes, actually this people are not communicating but instead they are using you as a psychologist for free! How much cost an hour with a psychologist? So start asking for money in exchange! Poor hairstylists!