How do you deal with a chatterbox?

[bluestateguy]

I was sitting at Starbucks the other day having my coffee trying to enjoy my book, and unfortunately, some lady was sitting at the table next to me, blabbering on and on and on about the most trivial, irrelevant stuff to a companion at her table (who looked bored to tears). She was talking loudly and just rambling on with run-on sentence after run-on sentence. I finally got up and quietly moved to the other end of the coffee shop.

It can also be especially annoying when these people have an annoying tone of voice. I recently worked with a woman who had a voice that sounded like someone sounds when they suck on a helium balloon. Her squeaky voice was so annoying that I always found a way to excuse myself from the room whenever she was there.

[HopeHoops]

1. Boom box and a really obnoxious rap CD.

Other than that, the only options involve jail time and a possible death sentence, or a likely one if you are in Texas.

[ElboRuum]

2. Ur doin it rite.

Moving away from a person who (from their own perspective) is just talking is a much more courteous and proper solution than some of the alternatives, which usually take some form of verbal confrontation. Expressing displeasure with a stranger's action where they have every right to engage in it, even when done with extreme politesse, can often lead to an unpleasantly escalated situation and, worse, no resolution.

[Kali]

3. oh, sorry

I don't get out much and sometimes when I get started I can't quit until the batteries run down.:rofl:

[MrScorpio]

4. Cement overshoes nt

[Duer 157099]

5. OMG, a real live human conversation, in person, in a coffee house?

I was sure you were going to say this was someone who calls you on the phone, or someone in public that was talking on a cell phone, or someone talking loudly in a library.

So people really still talk, face-to-face, in public places eh?

I should get out more.

:rofl:

[hobbit709]

6. Duct tape

[Wapsie B]

7. Try having one of those seated behind you on a 2.5 hour flight.