My Watercooler

One of my biggest pet peeves are people who ramble on, and on, and on.  You ask them a simple question like “How’s the weather where you are?” and they go on for twenty minutes beginning with a discussion about their car and how they just washed it, and they had to wash it again, the pool cover wasn’t on, and so now the pool has to get cleaned, and then the discussion moves to how there’s too much chlorine in their pool and they think it’s stinging their eyes, and it just goes on from here. All I asked was “how’s the weather?”.  A simple answer of “it rained last night” would suffice.  I was really only making conversation to begin with, and I didn’t even care what the weather was like.  My fault.  I should have never asked. (more…)