People shared ways of politely ending a conversation with someone who won’t stop talking – 25 funniest (and effective) shutdowns
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“Oh my gosh I have already taken up so much of your time — I am so sorry! I’m even running late myself!”
marbel
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‘As a teacher, I have learned how to interrupt people who do not leave any pauses when they’re speaking: start nodding and verbally agreeing with them, “Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh…” You can’t interrupt these people, but you can start agreeing while they speak, then raise your voice and say, “Yeah, wow, excuse me but I must go.”
Janicegirlbomb2
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‘Just start coughing these days it’ll clear a whole room in seconds.’
SinisterPigeon
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‘Coughing while muttering “I’m sorry, excuse me” and leaving the room.’
jacklord392
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‘If you can practice this, start to train one of your eyeballs to slowly drift off whilst the other eye remains locked on theirs. That should do the trick.’
The-Zesty-Man
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‘If they keep talking over polite cues, I have found there really isn’t a polite way to exit the conversation.’
Binder_Grinder
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‘My workplace has someone like this and it’s pretty much become a part of our culture to monitor who is trapped talking to her, for how long they’ve been stuck, and to rescue them after an appropriate amount of time has passed. She doesn’t get it, and probably never will.’
Lady_DreadStar
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‘I have to go now, my planet needs me.’
BenCJ
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‘I seriously need to learn how to do this. I’m too polite and like a magnet for these types who just want a warm body to talk at. Can barely get a word in edgewise and when I do it’s like they dont even hear me.’
Illustrious-Fly9586
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‘With some people it’s impossible. I worked with a guy who wouldn’t stop talking, long boring stories with no point and no end.
‘I was doing a course through distance learning at the time so any downtime was spent studying. I politely asked him to be quiet, and explained the importance of the assignment I was working on.
‘He agreed not to talk but then sat there humming, this lasted about 10 minutes until he couldn’t bear it anymore and started yabbering on again with his incessant nonsense.’
Bangkokbeats10
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‘Yea I worked with a dude who needed to talk. I just talked to him to be polite and not awkward. And I remember him saying “at least your not one of those people who are silent all day”. In my head I’m like, “FUCK, I wish I could be silent all day but now that you said that it would be even more awkward”.
‘At some point I just mentally said fuck it and started giving him one word replies. I think he got the hint because he started talking to me less. Eventually he quit after a couple months so it’s all good!
‘But some people just need to talk for whatever reason. I need my freaking silence.’
BlackSecurity
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‘My go to is “I don’t want to cut you short but I really need to get going. Let’s connect another time.” And that’s it.’
cheesemongrel938491
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