Weird Morning

[indiana_j]

I had to go into work late this morning because my driver side headlight went out.  It cost me only $12 and 20 minutes of waiting time, which was more than fine (and I got to sleep in!) but it was the conversation that I had that was so weird.

A woman sat herself across the table from me in the waiting room and started to talk to me.  Despite the whole "I've got a book and I'm obviously reading it" thing I had going.  She talked.  And talked and talked and talked.

With the exception of maybe 5 minutes, she talked to me.  Or, I should say, at me because she didn't seem that nonplussed when I stopped answering most of the time and just read.  I heard all about her back problems, her older friend and the casino, her children and their children and, then, my favorite ...

How she'd voted for Hilary and thought that the Prime Minister of Israel didn't like Obama because Obama was Muslim.

*sigh*  At that point, I looked up and politely went "Ma'am, it's very clear that what you consider consider truth is not what I consider truth.  I would prefer not to get into a political debate in the lobby of my mechanics shop at 8 in the morning."

That's when I got my 5 minutes of silence.  That ended when she wanted to talk about the blisters on her feet.  I'm not even kidding.

What the hell was that?!

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Unrelated: Barnes & Noble is having a buy two get one free sale on their website (and, I'm assuming, stores) today.  You have to pick from some pre-selected items but I managed to find three I was interested in:

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender

This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection, Carol Burnett

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution, Michelle Moran

With the sale and the free shipping since I'm a member, I saved almost $20.  \o/

Comments

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

I have a classmate like that in art.

I think it's not so much making conversation as thinking they have a chance to have an audience and someone who will finally listen to them because (of course) it's rude to say "SHUT UP ALREADY!"

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

It was pretty clear that she was kind of lonely, which made it even worse because I so wanted to tell her to leave me alone so I could read. And not responding didn't get me anywhere! She just kept talking!

[gollumgollum.livejournal.com]

Some people have no filter. I had a patient like that this weekend. Every. Single. Time. you walked in the room, she had to comment on what you were doing. Which sucked, because she was in the room where we kept all the ortho supplies. "What are you doing? That's a pretty big looking brace. Someone's really hurt, aren't they? Oh, and they need crutches too? They must have hurt themselves really bad."

Every.

Single.

Time.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

It was bad enough dealing with a random stranger; I can't imagine having to put up with that kind of thing on a regular basis as part of my job. D: It would drive me nuts.

[gollumgollum.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, the good patients outnumber this kind about 25 to 1, if not more. But yeah, by the time she was finished i was only able to go into her room when i absolutely had to.