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conversation and the fine art of interruption - 7/25/2008 6:39:29 PM
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OneJohn410
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Hey most knowledgeable and gracious Ladies,
I'd suspect that everyone wants to know people who are right, yet are also willing to admit they had never considered thus and so about something, and that the responding listener has a very good point. I'm also sure everyone knows someone who gets on that soapbox and must really just enjoy the sound of their own voice, hmm?? I do. So here's the questions.
The situation: You are listening to someone continue on and on about something, and believe you have a relevant point to bring up... yet Mr. or Ms. Speaker has just gotten warmed up and only approached home plate for the first pitch, as it were.
How do you remember enough of your point while waiting for a pause to give the time out already! signal to share your point?
What is a great way to sense when that time out already! signal should be given?
I'm of the opinion that there are too, too many one-sided conversations between Ms. Opinionated and Mr. Overbearing, for lack of better names, and that there's some common courtesy that could help these two get along better.
You can answer in the position of you interrupting Mr. Overbearing, or of how you appreciate he interrupt you (giving yourself whatever name you want  ), or even from both positions.
I will treasure your advice forever and ever.... that's if it is good, well at least as long as I can remember it.
As always, thanks for being so wonderful and cooperative in this, and know you are very possibly (most likely) making the world a better place by being in it.
OneJohn410
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When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "Let's go to Bethlehem! Let's see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about. Luke 2:15 (NLT)
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RE: conversation and the fine art of interruption - 8/2/2008 3:17:34 AM
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captainfraulein
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Hmmm...I think you are asking how and when to graciously interrupt somebody. I would say I don't know since I tend to just "do it" but this is how I try to with tack..
If in person, I raise my hand...I might talk gently over somebody. I may walk away a little, then come back and say something
ON the phone for work...I tend to just talk a little over and say I must go soon...I will say a call is coming in (which is not a lie since it will shortly! My phone rings all day long).
I tend to try to be loving but sometimes I just bulldoze over people who don't stop talking as there is NO other way sometimes!
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RE: conversation and the fine art of interruption - 8/3/2008 2:15:45 AM
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OneJohn410
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Guten Tag/Nacht, CaptainFrauline! And a very pleasant evening to you, Ebony101!
This is excellent brain food from both of you, and I thank you for it. Just jump right in, a gentle hand gesture (maybe a chop to the speaker's neck but only in jest?). I like that gentle word in there, to start to talk just a little bit louder than the other person- a gentle reminder that it takes two to have a conversation.
Thanks!
OneJohn410
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When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "Let's go to Bethlehem! Let's see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about. Luke 2:15 (NLT)
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