Thanks for trying!

[Summerfly413]

So this woman shops in our store fairly frequently. She always brings her son, who is around 11-14 if I had to guess. He wanders the store while she shops, and usually ends up in my department, electronics.

Nothing is sucky about him, but he starts talking to you and never stops. He will talk and talk and talk and talk until I either get a customer or his mother is finally done shopping and comes and grabs him.

So I was standing at the register, and he comes over. Starts talking about Rock Band and how he and his friends play and all this other stuff. He probably talks for like 15-20 minutes. I'll sometimes reply, or just nod my head or go "Mmmhmm..." in an uninterested way. Maybe he'll get the hint I don't want to hear him talk and talk and talk. He never gets the hint.

A couple times he said he sometimes goes off on rambles and he was sorry about annoying me, to which I'd reply "Oh...It's ok..." always hoping that would mean he was finally done. No such luck.

Well, during some of this time a customer was back by the game cases. Every once and a while I'd look around, and I would telepathically say "Help! Please! You must need help with something! Save me!" to him.

After a while he did come over and said he needed help finding a game. I excused myself from the talking kid, and just about ran to the game cases. Unfortunately the kid followed us over to them

I looked through the games while the kid started talking to the customer behind me. I couldn't find the game and said sorry, and tried to escape. I went to a different aisle and tried to become very focused on straightening so maybe if the kid saw me he would pass by and leave. ...Nope.

He came back over and kept talking and talking. After a few more minutes the same customer from earlier told me I had customers at my register. I thanked him and ran to my counter, leaving the kid. I checked out two teenage girls, and I saw the kid finally leave my department.

After the girls left the customer from before came over and said I had a lot of patience. He said he worked in retail and knows I can't do anything. He wasn't even really looking for a game, but he did it to try to get me away from the kid.
I didn't work, but at least he tried haha

[Sapphire Silk]

The boy may have Aspberger's Syndrome. Aspie's have trouble understanding social cues, and often ramble on and on, especially about topics of interest to them (but not necessarily to the listener).

Or, he may just be a lonely kid who comes around because he thinks you are willing to listen, and he craves social interaction.

[Summerfly413]

Yeah I thought it might be something like that, though I have no way of knowing. That's why I said he wasn't sucky, and why I'm not going to be mean or rude for no reason to try to get him away(not my personality anyway).