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I know someone like that, she calls me up and blathers on and on and on about every detail of her life and every detail of the lives of people I never heard of, and all her petty drama at work as well. I gave her a silent ringtone and never take her calls anymore. Happily we moved to a different town and she's now too far away to come knocking on our door with her motor-mouth babbling. You can't get a word in with her, she'll just talk over you louder and louder until you give up.
People have tried telling her she's a motor-mouth and talks too much, but she gets deeply wounded and launches into a huge crying fit of major drama and runs to everyone she can to tell them how deeply hurt she is at what they said to her, so there's no shutting her up at all. So glad I moved away from her!
I once read in a book on Eastern Philosophy, regarding motor-mouths, and there's a subconscious explanation possible: these people harbor a lot of anger inside, and it's their way of getting their anger out!
The mouth itself is symbolic and the teeth!
When I come across one of these people, I feel like they've put me in chains, or a rope around my neck!
I have an older friend that's like that. We will easily be on the phone for two hours with her doing most of the talking. She's pretty sick now and probably won't be around much longer. I have infinite patience for her because some day soon I'm going to miss all those words.
I don't have a problem with a stranger, I just walk away.
But there are a couple of people in my lunch group - one in particular - who will NOT shut up.
It's not that she won't let someone else talk. I can say something. then she will resume where she left off.
She is a good person, a 'heart of gold'.
I would never tell her she talks too much.
I wouldn't want to hurt her feelings.
But I do avoid the lunch group. If she joins late, and I am already there, I make an excuse and leave.
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Originally Posted by tijlover
I once read in a book on Eastern Philosophy, regarding motor-mouths, and there's a subconscious explanation possible: these people harbor a lot of anger inside, and it's their way of getting their anger out!
The mouth itself is symbolic and the teeth!
When I come across one of these people, I feel like they've put me in chains, or a rope around my neck!
Depends on how close I am to the person, and if what we're talking about beara any interest, some people get excited on a subject they know about, and want to just throw it all out there. If it's something I know about, I'll tell them that I already know, it may come off as rude, but I don't care as the knowledge they spit to me is more of a rehash, than something I didn't know, and sometimes there is persistance in finishing, even though I already know what they're talking about.
Somebody on the street, I may try to be nice, but I may just walk away if they can't take a hint. Rude yes, safer than me getting mad, though.
If you're on the phone with someone like that, when you get a chance to talk, hang up on yourself in the middle of your sentence. Either leave the phone off-hook or just don't answer if they try to call back. Next time you see them and they ask about it, claim that it was a phone malfunction of some sort.
I smile pleasantly and say "Sorry - no spikka Eengleesh"
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I feel the same way
