Do you ever try to watch television and someone keeps talking?

yes i have faced to that many time during watch the TV. why you not faced? You single now?

Its happen to me all the time. Here in our house if my older sister and brother watch t.v. I can't speak. But if I'm watching t.v. they are talking loudly and when I react they just tell me that to watch t.v. and don't listen to their conversation. grr...

You had better tell that person that he or she can not tell anything about the movies you are watching. Next time he or she won't do it any more.

Wow, I know someone who is also just like that. She keeps on talking about other stuff when you are obviously trying to watch TV. It's like she thinks her story is so interesting and I shouldn't focus on what Im watching anymore but to focus on what she is talking about. But she already told me this story several times.I just want to be polite so instead of making her stop I just listen to her. But there are times I cut her off and tell her" Wait this is really interesting" Let's talk about that later.. Sometimes out of being polite and not very rude I try to listen and then tell "Hey you already told me that" What's up with her?

My father do this all the time. He doesn't do it to annoy us, but sometimes he lost the movies line or forgot some detail and he needs to ask us. We make a little joke of him, but he doesn't become angry, because he knows it is just fun. But sometimes it annoys me, because you lost your focus and you can't watch the movie anymore. But what can I do? It is my father at least. Happy mylotting.

I have come across such people what I do is, simply tell someone I am trying to concentrate on watching the TV and ask him to tell me whatever he wanted to say later on.

yes that is very annoying but what is worse is when they keep flipping over to other channels, hard to know what to do especially if your at someone elses house.

Over here, the main TV program for the evening comes on at 8:30pm. I like to have all my chores done so I can relax and watch it (while I have half my eye on my laptop). One of my evening chores is to feed the animals at around 6pm. It's their routine. I also feed my friend's dog but he doesn't bring her over to my place till around 8:30pm. Then he proceeds to yabber on in spite of the fact that I'm trying to watch/listen to the TV. I tell him when it's my favourite show but in spite of that he comes over and annoys me mostly every night at around the same time.

Oh I am going through this all the time at work now. Ugh. I am the only non-hispanic in my department now and only one of the others doesn't speak Spanish. I work as a janitor in a retail store and there is only three people scheduled for a day. We all take breaks and lunch together and so the other two will sit there talking to eachother in Spanish the whole time very loudly. I am discluded from the conversation- intentionally, or else they would speak English; but I can't watch t.v. because they are too loud. I am hating it. I have no idea what's happening on the t.v. and only a bit of what's going on in the conversation. No peace and quiet and no entertainment. I have had people tell me about the show while it's on as well. All I can think is, "Heck, I'd know what was going on if you'd just shut up." A similar thing happens to me when I am trying to read on the bus. Someone will start asking me about it and go into a whole other conversation. It's irritating.

Yes. It is distracting and rude. Have a great day!

chrystaltears I think we all know a person like this. It is rather infuriating. I get a little agitated at people who haven't seen it either, but want to constantly guess what is going to happen next or if it is a scary movie,want to cover their eyes and have you tell them what is going on. I like total silence when I am watching television. If you want to talk, please wait till the commercials come on and I have returned from my bathroom break and refilling my drink.

Oh my,that sounds very much like my mom,lol! I don't know why she can't avoid from talking and telling what's going to happen in what we are watching. Or sometimes,if she doesn't know yet what she watches,she will keep on asking us instead of just watching and wait what's gonna happen in the movie. But I'm already used to that habit of hers,haha! Sometimes I do get irritated by it but what can I do,she's my mom and she's kinda old,I just let her what she wants to do that can make her happy and is still tolerable to us,lol!

I am normally that person lol. I don't do it in movies or anything like that. But to be honest I am EXTREMELY tempted to talk in the movies about whats going on in the movie lol. If I am watching something with my husband I came in on the middle of I will ask him questions to try and catch up and yes he gets annoyed. But its something I have to work on :)

I have small children..so..yes

hi, well she's must be crazy really . Me? If I were you I will tell her to turn off the tv land let her start the story about what were watching. Or i'm going ti walk out (i'm bad) he he. Seriously it's annoying that you want to watch tv when somebody is interupting how can you understand the show. Well there's a lot of people sometimes we can't understand.

hi I just hate that when a friend does that when I really want to watch and hear the program for myself. I feel like stuffing a sofa pillow into their mouth of course I would not really do that. But why cannot the person sit there and watch in silence so we can both hear the program and see it 'and enjoy it so much more?

Oh goodness that would absolutely drive me crazy! I would not watch anything with that person until they kept their trap shut. Lol. Especially if its a show that Im really interested in. Ugh.

I have experienced this before and i find it really annoying when someone does that. I want to sit and enjoy the show or whatever I am watching on the television but the other person spoils it for you. I don't want to be rude to them either by telling them to stay quiet...

I'm pretty good at following both the show and the conversation so I don't mind. What I hate are people that don't listen at all while watching tv. My mom is one of those, I practically have to yell before she notices I'm trying to ask her something.

That's annoying yes, though there's something I believe to be worse. My sister's always watching TV or something and when I try to speak with her she snaps at me for interrupting her, saying I should be able to tell she's busy with her shows or whatever. But later on, when I'm watching TV (which is not nearly as much as she does) she just comes next to me and starts talking! Come on people, you bite our heads off far trying to communicate with you while you're watching TV, and then you do the same and expect us to actually be happy about it?!