Are you a talker?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

Do you talk a lot? Do you like to talk? My mother told me to shut up when I was thirteen. I didn't talk to her or my dad til I was fourteen. Dad was only home on the weekends. I doubt he even noticed.

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. I love the give and take of talking

I have a niece who used to talk non stop. I love her to pieces . She is my oldest half sisters daughter , so we are close in age.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. that was me...a real chatterbox.

:)....not so much after that.

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. I can talk the hind leg off a donkey.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. ok...I understand that...

I can shoot the shoot the shit and shuck and jive with the best of them ;)

I guess I am talking about meaningful conversation :hug:

I just don't think I am very good at that.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

3. Nope n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. ~

:thumbsup:

[Inchworm]

4. I babble a lot, and tend to utilize tangents that create a circle

:P

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. ^ please refer to posts #2 and #8 above ^

[PRETZEL]

5. Two adages while I was growing up,

children should be seen, not heard.

If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything.

For some reason my wife just doesn't understand that not everyone likes to talk alot.

I don't make idle conversation very easily. That's the way I was raised.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. yes

me too.

[femmocrat]

50. Yes, that is how I was raised, too.

I can remember my day saying that. Oh well, it's probably how they were raised too.

:shrug:

[Tyo]

6. I prefer to listen. Learn more that way. n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. My dad used to say something about

keeping my mouth shut and folks will only think you are stupid. Open your mouth and it will rmove all doubt.

on edit: found the quote:

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." -
-- Mark Twain

[hunter]

10. No. I can't edit my words after I say them.

Since I learned to talk I've been a master of the inappropriate question or observation. Therefore I keep my mouth shut.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. totally -

sometimes, I wish I did not ever have the ability to speak. I am one of those that can open my mouth, insert my foot and chew it to my knee.

[PRETZEL]

15. I doubt that,

I think you're being a bit hard on yourself.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. thanks

:hug:

[PRETZEL]

26. you're welcome,

but you don't need to thank me. you're selling yourself short.

You shouldn't.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

30. bad habit...working on it. n/t

[Moondog]

Yes.

And for 25 years or so, you could say I talked for a living. A few years ago I retired way young, and now I find that I miss it all. I'm thinking about going back to it, just to have something to fill the days. And a captive audience.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. heehee

you go ahead on with your self and talk away. I might be sitting in the back row and sneaking out the door depending on the subject :hi:

[BarenakedLady]

16. Not usually

There are days when I don't want to talk at all, to anyone. Sometimes I can be downright chatty.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. Yes...depends on my mood a lot.

:hi:

[supernova]

17. No, I'm not

I can talk, often a lot, but when I do, it's because (I think) there's a reason for it or the conversation is "deep."

:-)

Consequently, I don't enjoy a lot of day to day idle chatter. It just makes my head hurt. And there are certain people I stay away from just because I'm not as in love with their voice as they are.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. exactly

:thumbsup: :hi:

[Swede]

19. I'm not much of a talker.

nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

25. ~

:) :hug: :hi:

[surrealAmerican]

22. Not at all.

I would periodically stop talking entirely as a child. I could go days before anyone noticed.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

27. me too

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. No.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

29. ~

;)

[tigereye]

28. oh yeah, it drives my son crazy how i "always have to talk to everybody.."

:rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

31. poor kid -

:D :hi:

[tigereye]

32. ah, he'll get over it - his dad is a bit more reserved than I am.

[In_The_Wind]

33. nope

[suninvited]

34. when I was a teenager

My mother would get mad at me and part of my punishment would be that my sisters and brother could not speak to me until told differently. This could be anywhere from a couple of hours to a couple of days. During one of those spells I decided not to speak to anyone in my family ever again. That lasted about a week.

[backtoblue]

35. No, and especially not on the phone - makes my ear hurt.

I do enjoy the silence of cyber chats, though. :hi:

[NJmaverick]

36. Generally no, but I have my talkative moods

during those rare momements, yes I am a talker

[Arkansas Granny]

37. Yes, I'm a talker,

but I can be a good listener, too.

[raccoon]

38. When I was a kid, I was quiet as a proverbial mouse. I'm more talkative now.

But I definitely am not a big talker.

Sorry that happened to you, Tuesday. :hug: With me it was like, shut up, don't bother me. Kids were supposed to be seen and not heard.

[Ikonoklast]

39. I enjoy a good conversation.

When I am in town, there is a group of us that meet for lunch every day, and breakfast on Saturday.

Depending on the time of year, weather, how busy work is, it can be just two or three of us on any given day, like today, or twenty or so. All ages, many different political stripes.

We have lively discussions about damn near anything.

The health care issue is pretty big among us right now, as many of these people are self-employed or small business owners, and the issue of paying for health care is killing some of these guys.

I guess I get the love of talk from my Irish ancestors, and my father who, even when we were little, led the discussion around the family dinner table.

[datasuspect]

40. i'm a stalker

[backtoblue]

42. you scare the shit out of me data!

just so that's off my chest. :hide:

[datasuspect]

44. talk to your kids about drugs

before i do.

[backtoblue]

45. Can I use you as an example?

or a specimen? :rofl:

[Forkboy]

41. Not especially.

If it wasn't for my cat I could days on end without ever speaking out loud.

[datasuspect]

43. seems like a shame

to waste your sense of humor on a cat.

[Forkboy]

46. He's probably thinking the same thing.

Or, "How do I get this moran to stop talking to me in that baby voice?"

[Tangerine LaBamba]

47. Oh, honey -

What a fucking rotten thing for your mother to have done. I am so sorry. I know how hard that is, how badly it hurts, even now. If parents only understood what power they had over their kids.

We did better with our children, didn't we?

But I know you write really well, and I love what you write, how you think, so feel free to fill my head with your words.

Your mother was wrong, and she did a very bad thing. But you're something else entirely. And I'm thankful for that................

:hug:

[femmocrat]

48. Not really.

I wasn't encouraged to converse with adults when I was a child, either. Maybe that has something to do with it.... or not. My dad and I never had a "conversation", even when I grew up.

I have a hard time with "small talk". It just bores me. One of the reasons I married my husband was that when we were dating, he did all the talking. LOL

[Call Me Wesley]

49. Hmm? (nt)

[BreweryYardRat]

51. I'll yap my head off if I'm having an interesting conversation. Preferably an intellectual one.

Otherwise, I'm almost silent.

Partially, that's because I'm a quiet person by nature, and partially it's because I lived with my mother for most of my childhood and on up until late high school. Mom never shuts up for more than 5 minutes, and that's given me a horror of endless pointless yammerings.