Pickles by Brian Crane for October 29, 2021

What drives me nuts is being on the phone and someone is talking your ear off but you have basically tuned them out. But then they catch onto that and say, “What have I been saying?” Busted!

I think she’s catatonic. The cat is her tonic.

I had a son who would tune me out 10 seconds after I started in on his responsibilities. Fortunately, my father taught me (by example, alas) how to cope with that: Finish a sentence. Ask the target audience to paraphrase it back to you. Do the next sentence, Ask for a paraphrase of the TWO sentences. Repeat. Break for lunch. Repeat. Break for dinner… Eventually, you DO get through, though it’s a lot like pulling teeth. Without pliers. (The moaning is similar, too).

And so then I said to her, it’s none of your business!

Opal ask the cat the same question ;-)

Muffin makes an appearance !

Just lost your train of thought, Opal!

Couch city here he comes.

sorry Opal, we weren’t listening either… zzzz. :-) Kinda reminds me of my mother in law, she can talk for hours while you just nod, say mmhmm, and do whatever you want! read a book, watch tv… lol she doesn’t care, just keeps on blabbing! You couldn’t get a word in edgewise anyway!

Did you ever “wake up” in the middle of someone else’s sentence, try to figure out what they were saying, and pretend that you “got it all”?

I’ve never had that problem. I don’t know what I’m talking about when I’m wide awake.

I think he might get away with this one!

There HAS to be a song in this…

One of the few times that honesty may not be the best policy…

Where’s Earl’s one-piecer????

The crash you heard was her train of thought derailing.

Opal needs to get her bunny slippers on to get her brain in gear.

…..and THIS is what I have to look forward to..????

I was on my land line one time with a friend that just kept rattling on and on. I was in the middle of cooking supper at the time and needed to stir stuff on the stove. Cord wouldn’t reach that far so I gently laid the phone down, went over and stirred my stuff, came back, picked up the phone and he was still rattling away and never knew I was gone for a few minutes.

That’s the very reason I don’t like the phone! Some go on and on but when you have something to say they seem bored and not interested….one friend seems to think everything is funny….and it’s all about her….BORING!

When I was child, my Mother would continually accuse me of not listening to what she was saying during one of her half-hour (literally) lectures. The only entertainment I got out of it was repeating verbatim the last five minutes of what she had been saying. It didn’t stop her from accusing me of the same thing next time. :)

Before my dad passed away, we’d be talking and he’d fall asleep in mid-sentence. A few minutes later he’d wake up talking right where he left off. “I did it again, didn’t I?” We’d all have a good laugh. I’m still listening.

And there you have it….ain’t it?

I simply say, “Oh well. My train of thought has just derailed. There were no survivors.” I never ask anyone “What was I saying?” I’m afraid they might tell me.

I often have to ask Alexa the same question.

Say good night Gracie, I mean Opal.

Whenever I forget what I was saying and nobody else knows what it was, I take the wild guess it was not important to them and drop the subject.

Ya I get where I tune out. Except on my husband, I have to stop doing what I do when he talks.

Made for each other.

Are those Crocs on Opal’s feet? Would go well with the jumpsuit!

I catch hell from people, my wife included, because I hear every word around me although it appears that I’m not paying attention. It’s a trick I learned when I was in outside sales and I was calling on customers, it’s amazing what people will say out loud when they don’t think you’re listening

My son was watching a piece on YouTube the other night and the speaker was describing the family trees of half of Europe’s royalty. I lost track somewhere and when it ended I switched to something more interesting since the guy who started that one was in the bathroom by then.

So, which one forgot about the jumpsuit?!