The Conversation Hog: How to Snuff Them Out or Realize You are One

Are You the Socially Awkward Person Who Cannot Take a Hint?

I think that we have all dealt with at least one person in our lives that simply cannot take a hint.

The person, who when asked how their weekend was, divulges you with a forty-five-minute speech about the candid photos they and their family took at the pumpkin patch or the minute by minute explanation of their argument with their mother-in-law.

You feel trapped.

You have no idea how to escape the situation and spend most of the time pretending that you are listening. You can feel the minutes of your day slowly slipping away and you are becoming more and more agitated, which makes appearing to be interested harder and harder to do. Once they finally walk away, you breathe a sigh of relief, but you know that there will be a next time and it will be just as brutal.

Typically, we appease this type of person’s requests because we feel sorry for them.

We know that they are lonely, isolated or awkward and that is why they selfishly take up all the time they can, because of the…