Anyone else feel like people don’t pay attention to what you say? Ever had someone walk away while you were in the middle of a sentance talking to them? Does this only happen to quiet people? Should I chase after them like a puppy dog and keep on talking?
Sigh It just kind of gets to you after a while cause I know I’m not that dull.
Well, that only happens with one person, but it’s more a problem of him being too absorbed in his thoughts while maintaining a straight face.
I thought he was listening and then all of a sudden he “wakes up” and asks me what I just said…
I’m afraid I do that sometimes, mostly to my wife when she’s going on about something that I’m not the least bit interested in. :rolleyes: I hate it when I do it, but something in my brain shouts something much more interesting at me and I’m gone.
I get that, I also get this thing where I make some observation or witty comment or whatever, and there is no reaction, and somone else repeats it within 3 minutes to standing fucking ovations. I mean what can you say, “Uh , I said that first?”. And I am not even particularly quiet.
I get that alot. I never speak up, and when I finally do, it’s like people aren’t expecting it, so they just don’t notice. I try not to hunt them down to finish the conversation. The way I look at it, if they walked away, they were probably too absorbed in something else.
More seriously, the only person who ignores me when I speak is my wife. I generally keep quiet until I have something I really want people to know, so when I talk people (usually) want to hear what I have to say.
(A-hem. If anyone thinks otherwise, please tell me.)
And my wife has an attention span about as thick as a dime, so she often wanders off to a happy place or never realizes I’m talking to begin with.