I'm in the living room right now and SiL #1 is on the patio with Tim and his bros, and she has been talking without a break for 15 minutes. Holy God.

Today might be pedicure day b/c it's rainy, and I'm trying to brace myself for hours of nonstop chatter.

I forgot that she never, EVER shuts the fuck up. She will not stop talking. Ever. Like, if someone is clearly reading a book, she sits down and launches into a monologue anyway. About NOTHING.

I had a neighbor like that back in Brooklyn. (In the same building, so we ran into each other pretty often.) Eventually I learned to just say "uh-huh, see you later" and walk away. It's trickier when it's family though!

You have described my not-so-new colleague (yes, both of you).

Oh nooooo.

Also I meant to say "oh no!" to Dana. I feel like that should get you out of at least one 7am meeting.

I'm sorry, Karl. I love dogs, and I hope to live in a situation where I can have one again someday. But you don't know what strange dogs are going to do, and their people owe it to the dogs and society to keep them under proper control. I forget where you live, but in concealed carry states, that interaction could have resulted in a dead dog.

JZ, I'm so sorry about how Matilda's camp experience ended. It's great that there's extended family support, though.

she would just start talking about something else in the middle of someone else's story! What the actual fuck?

It just literally does not register with some people. My mother-in-law is one of them. And it is not a habit that gets better or more amusing with age.

I'm having oatmeal with half a banana. I don't even like bananas.

I guess it's an improvement that today I am wishing I had a banana rather than a cupcake. I mean, I wouldn't turn down a cupcake, but I am really bummed that all my bananas are at home.

That is some impressive zen, sarameg.

I think there was something else I meant to respond to but I had a feeling before I got out of bed today that it wouldn't be a great brain day for me and I was right.

I am finding the banana x-post hilarious.

Ooh, Jesse, sorry to hear the gf came on the trip. Right now I'm annoyed with one friend who is basically like "no I can't do anything without my gf because we only get so much vacation time and it wouldn't be fair to use it without her" and I'm like "you LIVE together, you can't spend ONE weekend apart??"

Oh nooooo.

The getting-in-the-middle-of-someone-else's-story is what ticks me most. For her talking I have headphones (God bless musicals), but it's been several times where she interrupted professional conversations with other colleagues and bosses. I think she just can't read into these situations, but it's really tiring my nerves.

I knew a non-stop talker, it's like they're terrified of silence or think that it's a major social failure if there isn't "conversation" when there are at least two people in the room. I could see actual anxiety in her face as she kept talking.