The Pause
My dad had a mate that would come around for barbeques and other social events. A pretty normal, everyday guy, apart from one thing: in the middle of a conversation, he would sometimes stop in the middle of a sentence, and just... pause. He'd carry on looking at you, as if engaged in conversation, but not saying anything. The pause would grow longer and longer, becoming really uncomfortable; maybe a minute or even two. Then he'd suddenly continue as if nothing had happened, picking up where he'd left off.

I hope it was nice where he went.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 10:07, 15 replies)

I know someone who does this, it's got so irritating I tend to avoid talking with him anymore
It's as if they are assuming you are hanging on to every word they are uttering as with with profound meaning or intellectual significance.

Wrong, it's as boring and irritating as fuck. I think it's got to the stage where the person I know who does it thinks i'm being rude when i'm in their company; especially when I walk off in the middle of one of these long pauses.
( Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 11:11, closed)

On the other hand
I knew a guy who did this. It was a minor epileptic fit - sometimes known as a 'petit mal'. He would just go away for a few seconds or a couple of minutes, and then come back again with no idea that he'd even had the fit. He wasn't allowed to drive a car because of this.
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 11:23, closed)

The person I know is not having an minor epileptic fit, however
it's simply an extremely annoying trait of their personality I can't be arsed to deal with anymore
( Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 11:34, closed)

You should hoof him in the works.

( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 13:28, closed)

Having a conversation with him is excruciatingly painful
so I tend not to now.
( Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 15:26, closed)

Fuck conversation.
Hoof. Works. Now.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 15:38, closed)

Have you tried
Doing it back?

"Oh, by the way, did you...."

And just stand there looking at him until he walks away.
(TheASK, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 3:55, closed)

To much effort

( Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 9:38, closed)

Hes trying to communicate with you telepathically
(Freakmandu, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 13:50, closed)

Yes, but not everyone has been taught the proper use of commas,

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 14:16, closed)

It could be an absent seizure
He wouldn't know it was happening.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 17:20, closed)

i've heard gossip about Gary Rhodes that's quite similar
seems he was run over in his youth and now sometimes he sort of freezes up in conversation
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 20:36, closed)

Shame they didn't finish the cunt off.

( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 8:34, closed)

My Dad
does this and always has done. Fucking infuriating and I think he knows it! Nothing worse than
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 21:25, closed)

Mine too.
He'd be in mid flow telling us about something interesting and would suddenly stop in the middle of the, um,

It never happened when he was talking about anything dull.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 11:59, closed)