Work/live with someone that just doesn't friggin' LISTEN?!!?
I hate having to repeat myself. I hate when something is screwed up because someone didn't listen. I hate asking a question and getting some off-the-damned-wall response because someone didn't listen to the question. I hate when someone interrupts with an answer before I finish the question and then I have to repeat myself. I hate having to repeat myself. I hate when someone says, "Oh, but you told me..." no...I didn't tell you nuthin'. You told yourself that because you didn't friggin' listen.
Example A:
Me: I need to find someone that can engr...
Boss: Try so-and-so. They do silk screening.
Me: No. I need someone to engrave this.
Boss: Oh. Nevermind.
Ten minutes later. Boss: I just remembered this other guy does silk screening, too.
Me: I don't care. I don't need silk-screening. I need engraving.
Boss: Oh, I thought you said you needed silk screening.
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If not, then bad bluesbassman, bad! 
BTW, 
Tears of hysteria, I think. 
back at ya!
Deep fried? Finish your thoughts, man. 
can't hear for shit.
Mr Pipi is like this. He always thinks he knows what I'm about to say. He's usually wrong. Often talks over me. I want to hit him.
In addition, he's losing his hearing. I told him he may need a hearing aid and his answer was that he will NEVER get one. Ever.
OK so yesterday we're in town for Sunday breakfast at our usual little spot. It gets a little noisy and he can't hear properly. The owner, who is about the same age, can't hear properly. A summer resident we are friendly with comes in...she needs to lip read while listening. Then one of our friends, a lady of about 80, comes in, and she is losing her hearing also.
OMG.
A room full of hard of hearing elders. Things can get pretty....interesting
WHY do people object to these?
We have a close friend who is deaf as a post.
She compensates pretty well.
In a crowded room with lots of jabber she'll smile and nod her head when you talk to her.
Once, in a normal tone of voice, I said "Ruthie, what did I just say?"
She smiled and nodded.
Or, the husband would have done it for me. He's good at recognizing the signs of when I'm about to lose it and will make appropriate excuses for us to leave.
He's losing his hearing, as well, on top of just being easily distracted. I drive him nuts when he says, "What did you say?" and I won't tell him. I tell him if he loved me what I had to say would have been important enough to listen to the first time. The look on his face is always priceless.
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You finish each others' sentences.
But Miz t. is usually wrong, but she really likes to guess.
Me: "Need anything from Lowes'? I'm going this aft..."
"To get the paint for the ceiling?"
"No, I need some..."
"More caulk?"
"No, I want to..."
"Why don't you go ahead and get the ceiling paint?"
"Well, I could, but I..."
"You might as well get it while you're there."
"OK, you get three more guesses why I'm going to Lowes'."
"Oh. OK. Why?"
I gotta wonder how long that would have gone on had you not stepped in, though. There was no way to give the guy a logical, truthful answer that he would have found acceptable. I think I would have just snapped and told him they were made retroactively in Berlin but were originally made in Dallas, TX.
He'd start talking to her while she was cooking or doing something else. Then...he'd wander out of the room and keep talking. It would drive her nuts.