Too Complex

[GaryS]

Can anyone do anything without endless blah, blah, blah?

My friend and his wife want us to go out to dinner with them tonight. Good. We know the place and picking out a time shouldn't be hard.

Yet, it seems that they and my wife want to make it more difficult than planning the Normandy invasion.

Arrggh.

 

[soFlaNative]

You're probably there and back before this Daytona race starts.

 

[NYlakesider]

Can anyone do anything without endless blah, blah, blah?

My friend and his wife want us to go out to dinner with them tonight. Good. We know the place and picking out a time shouldn't be hard.

Yet, it seems that they and my wife want to make it more difficult than planning the Normandy invasion.

Arrggh.

Are they planning to go by boat!

 

[Camster]

I can make plans with some people a month in advance, at a great distance, and it's a done deal.No chatter is necessary.
Others of the local kind, might need to confirm plans for the next day a few times, and must call you even when they're leaving their house,perhaps on the short ride as well, as if you forgot or something. They'll show up late often as not, as they must also fear having to wait a few minutes on their own, which is never the case when I have a meeting.

 

[GaryS]

Worse, by Kia!

Are they planning to go by boat!

 

[coltle6920]

Half the conversation will have been between the two wives discussing what they will wear. Can't show up looking like twins.

The other half will be utter nonsense to us males. I say this because women can talk for hours on end even though they just spoke to each other yesterday.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

We men must remember: If the Ladies ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!
Sometimes it pays just to shut up and listen.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[GaryS]

We finally got a plan together and had a nice dinner. Followed by "Ford versus Ferrari", which surprisingly wasn't my choice. The wives actually enjoyed it.

 

[JH1951]

We men must remember: If the Ladies ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!
Sometimes it pays just to shut up and listen.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Now, there is a wise man who has obviously been around the block more than once, and will successfully make yet another lap.

 

[walkin jack]

Half the conversation will have been between the two wives discussing what they will wear. Can't show up looking like twins.

The other half will be utter nonsense to us males. I say this because women can talk for hours on end even though they just spoke to each other yesterday.

When faced with a situation like this I find it best to take the subtle approach. I'd pop the ear buds in and listen to some i-tunes.

But

Be prepared for a backfire.

 

[kamloops67]

Thats an easy one !
Just go to your loading room and turn out some practice rounds or something , boss will call your name when its time to leave

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Send them to us. We can help. We provide the only not-for-profit support group and 12-step program for compulsive talkers. We call it "On-and-on-and-on".

Separate facilities for the kids, lots of fun and games (no cell phones, no Facebook, just good clean kid fun stuff).

Separate meetings for the husbands, cash bar and non-stop sports programming.

"Hi! My name is Jill and I'm a compulsive talker".

"Hello, Jill. Now sit down and shut up for a while".

We are all about compassionate care for the most annoying among us.

 

[tlawler]

I just can't understand why some people have to talk as much as they do. I have co-workers that are nice people, but I avoid any kind of conversation with them because they just go on and on and on. Thank goodness for texting, because I do have to communicate with them and can keep it short. And Women...don't even get me started on women. My wife has friends that I swear have early onset dementia and forget that they have told me the exact same story several times. They get upset with me when I repeat the next sentence they are about to say, which is my way of gently letting them know their story is indeed interesting and that I (may) have heard it before. My wife says I'm unsocial because I tend to be a man of few words.

 

[carpriver]

If we are the party being asked I said when where and what time As I am retired I have no plans, well except for range day. If We are asking I tell my wife the when and the time, the where is up to the girls.

At church when it's time the pick a date for the next meeting people can't set a date, After a minute I will say lets do it the thief Sunday of the month. It's like no one wants to make a decision. If they won't I will.

 

[BC38]

We were meeting some friends on the way to a campground in Astoria OR for a weekend of camping. We were coming from Seattle and they were coming from Portland OR.

I told my buddy, "We'll meet up on Highway 30 between I-5 & the bridge into Kelso around 10pm." That was about an hour and a half drive for me and a little over an hour for him.

At 10pm I pulled over at a turnout on the side of Highway 30 and my buddy pulled in right behind me 5 minutes later. Our wives couldn't believe that we coordinated a meet up like that with one phone call days in advance.

I just ain't that hard ladies. Agree on when and where and be there on time. Simple.

 

[Fishslayer]

Sometimes it pays just to shut up and listen.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

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