Long Time Caller, First Time Listener

What Annoys Me #877

When you're telling someone a story about something or someone, and they're only half listening at first, disinterested in whatever you're going to say, before they even know what it is you're going to say. However, after the first few details they hear something that catches their fancy, and they want to know what you're talking to. This leads usually to - "Whoa whoa whoa, back up a second, who did what to who?", and then you have to repeat the details, but then they've forgotten the middle, and then they start questioning you annoyedly "So This Guy did this? The guy from the store?" "No, the guy from work, and not that name, this name", "Oh, so who is he again? And why is he doing this? Okay, why do you know this person did this? What does he have to do with you?", and things continue like that, until the entire story's flow is lost. And then at the end, they act like you've bored them with a story, that didn't live up the hype they felt after 1 minute of not listening, and then 2 seconds of listening.

It's so frustrating, that it's fustrating. It loses the 'r'.

I asked my friend today if he had been promoted to the Vice President of Bread at his company. I hopefully will find out soon.