Old lady at the bus stop

[chinashirtgirl]

I was at the bus stop today, minding my own business when an old lady comes up and asks me if the bus had just left, it had and I told her so but she took that politenss to be an invitation to talk to me till the next bus came.

She told me all about her illnesses, how she was in a wheelchair for six months but now she can walk again she never wants to sit down etc.

Not bad stories I guess, but I was totally uninterested, I was on my way to work at an old folks home where I was about to hear a dozen such stories, I just wanted to ride the bus in peace!!

What I did was get as far enough away from her as possible on the bus and then I had some time to myself before I started work. Nice

The same thing happens if I go to work early and the people who have been out all night drinking decide to make me their chat partner... FUCK OFF!! I am not in the mood!!

[blas]

Some people just do NOT get that not everyone wants to be your new best friend and hear your life story and talk with you for hours on end.

I probably sound like a real stuck up bitch, but I can't stand the "idiot on the parkbench" type of people, or in the OP's case, the idiot at the bus stop.

I find nothing wrong with a polite "Hello" or "Good morning" or even a quick chat with a random stranger....it's another thing when someone just gets right into your bubble and won't leave you alone. The worst of all is if this type of person is one of your neighbors or coworkers!

[MaggieTheCat]

This reminds me of an incident that happened to me and my husband in a grocery store last year. We were in the canned goods section looking for soup or something, when this old lady just walks up to us at random and starts talking about her life. Her and her family were from Russia or somewhere near there and had lived through WWII and how hard it was during the war, they had nothing to eat but dirt and grass some days. And people today complain about food all the time, they have nothing to complain about. Husband and I were too shocked and polite to tell her to bugger off. She really was a nice lady, but wow, she took up probably 15 or 20 minutes of our time. We just smiled politely and nodded and agreed with her and she was so happy when she walked away that she had someone to talk to that I didn't have the heart to feel bad or angry at her about it, even though I was kinda annoyed through the whole conversation.

[JLG]

.it's another thing when someone just gets right into your bubble and won't leave you alone. The worst of all is if this type of person is one of your neighbors or coworkers!

There are certain associates at work that I try not to be in the break room with while I am on my lunch break. Many days I just want to read my book and enjoy the 45 minutes I am off my feet. But there are just some associates that tell me stories that I am not interested in hearing. Usually these are the ones that ask you NOTHING about your life and go on and on about themselves.

Even if my responses are "Umm hmmm" "Uhh huhh" They still keep talking.

[blas]

There's a guy like that on the weekend shift, and when he works his one weekday shift Thursday night and he takes breaks when we do, we just cringe and try to keep talking and not have to listen to him blargling on and on at the next table.

He's somehow extremely popular with some people....he always gets a table full of people listening to him go on and on for 10 minutes about him making a sandwich last night, because he could have sworn up and down that there was NO mayo left in the fridge, but then he found some to go with the last few pieces of cheese that they had, and then speaking of running out of stuff to make sandwiches with and how that's so annoying, how his neighbors play techno music and it's really really annoying, but if it were country then he'd literally kill them....it's not really as bad as the guy upstairs who stomps around all the time, but it's still annoying.....annoying like his last girlfriend who had this really odd shaped body but was totally hot....hot but totally crazy....she was so crazy, one time they went to this bar together and she almost punched the bartender because she thought the bartender was flirting with him......speaking of bartenders, ever notice how some bartenders are just assholes and lie to you and say that they don't have Leinenkugels on tap but you just KNOW they do?

Seriously...that above....for an entire break. It's really hard to tune him out.

[Misanthropical]

Both of my sons love to talk and talk and talk, so I learned to tune them out and occasionally say "uh huh" and they leave happy thinking I listened to them blathering on and on.

Anyway, because of them I can tune people out who want to tell me their life stories. I still haven't figured out why people just assume I want to hear all about their life.

I had sent my husband to the store one day to return an item for our money back, because the seal was broken or something like that. He told me there was a huge line and while waiting the woman in front of him told him all about her life and how her husband had cheated on her, etc. My husband will make polite conversation with people, but finds that usually leads to them confessing things to him that he never wanted to hear about.

[telecom_goddess]

aaarrrggghhh I hate that....I always attract the people who WON'T SHUT UP!

I don't want to hear about your sickness, or bad luck in life, or what ever the hell.

[ditchdj]

Sadly, the ONLY people that I seem to attract out in public that want to be my best friend are the ones that want to sell me something.

Not to mention that if I wanna pay for any services or products nobody goes to me. I go to them.

[fireheart]

I get this at work. The area I work in has a heap of old people. That's why I don't maintain a too long conversation unless they initiate it about something.

[Anakah]

I hate that. Where I work lots of people love to retire. So its old people land. Not a bad thing but damn, I know they're lonely and do need someone to talk to but not me. I don't like having long conversations and usually when I do get into it, usually I end up with some kind of sexual harassment at the end.

Whenever a CW is in "trouble" (getting stuck with someone who will NOT shut up) we have a code word "butterfly" or we tell the CW that the Supervisor needs them lol We bail each other out.

[mattm04]

I was a MLB game recently. As required you must drink at least 4 or more $6 beers. Of course the really drunk people just want to be everyone's friend. I had one guy put his arm on my shoulder and go "weeeeeee wooooooooonnnnnnn maaaaaan.." and proceed to tell his life story for about 3 seconds until he stumbled, almost fell and then puked.