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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne thing I really really really hate...
Are people that talk really really really fast. Like Trump does.
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One thing I really really really hate... (Original Post)
LiberalFighter
Oct 2020
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BKDem
(1,733 posts)1. One thing I really hate are people like Trump.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)2. Me too, along with never ending sentences
I stopped even trying to listen. I just chalk them up as desperate and dishonest.
634-5789
(4,175 posts)3. BINGO.
We had to change phones here last month, and I got some damned teenager at the problem center, and after her rattling off words like she was auctioneering off steers, i had to just hang up and call back, hoping to get someone who would just talk normally. Are they getting paid by the word? I'll ordinarily ask them to slow down, so I can understand them, but sometimes it's just not worth it.
Silver1
(721 posts)4. All con artists talk that way.
They don't want you to think about what they just said.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)5. I always tell them to slow down
I'm old and my brain can't process that fast