To have reacted like this to someone who won’t allow me to get a word in edgeways?

Occam’s Razor. I love it!

To be honest whenever I see an OP posting about how people are always interrupting them I can't help but wonder if they could be one of the people like the "friend" here. Like yes they are being interrupted but they've left the other person with no other option apart from the 'most annoying noise in the world' of course.

I did it yesterday. Sick of not being allowed a word in edgeways and the final straw being cut off midway through a question, I had to say something. Not my proudest moment but I got respect for the remainder of the call. Just say something (but practice first so you say it calmly).

I know someone like this. He will just talk over you mid sentence and it's usually conspiracy crap or massively embellished stories. I had had enough once and said "sorry, did the middle of my conversation interrupt the start of yours?!" He looked embarrassed and made some excuse up that his brain is wired to be three steps ahead 🙄. He soon went back to doing it.

🤣😂😂 when you pop into the pub next just say you dont let me get a word in edgeways be honest she might need the honesty .

I can see why you did what you did because people like this are incredibly irritating and lacking in self awareness. 🙄

What I don't understand however, is why you began engaging her in conversation when you knew with certainty what would happen. I'd just have said something like "Hi X, a pint of beer and a glass of red wine please!" Then just left it at that while she hopefully served me. Your DH must have been absolutely gasping for his drink by the time you got back to the table. 🤣

I have not seen the film Dumb and Dumber that you mentioned and have no clue as to what the noise you made might be although my imagination is working overtime! 😱
Please put me out of my misery and explain!! 🙄

Don't feel bad. She's using you as a sounding board to decompress. Its extremely rude and in her working environment very unprofessional. She might not realise she's doing it.

She wrote « friend » though.

op, we all have our fav pub but honestly change it for the sake of your sanity.

I find people like this fascinating, I mean it's amazing the way they can just talk and you literally cannot participate. They also don't seem to care at all that they are boring people to death. I think it's a bit of mental illness tbf.

She’s neurodivergent. ADHD possibly autism.

The fact that she put “friend” in inverted commas should have made that clear.

One of mine had ‘this one time at band camp’ syndrome too. I remember early on in the relationship thinking ‘this is really quite annoying’ while simultaneously thinking ‘I’ll never get tired of your stories 😍’. Well, I did. Lesson learned.

I think you’re a legend. Airhorn! I don’t know how some folk reach adulthood without any self reflection. There’s enough known about all sorts of conditions for all of us to ask ourselves, ‘do I do that? Is that me?’, these are my thoughts when 2 lovely, old friends of mine start talking. Next time I’m going to airhorn them.

Maybe if you work in a bar and there are a lot of old guys ( not very talkative) sitting at the counter then she has to make most of the conversation as otherwise there would be silence…..no Idea really but seen the way that oldish men just sit there supping their pints and hardly a word out of them😂

She’s autistic. Her brain is not like yours. So just be kind.

I don’t know how anyone gets to adulthood dominating conversations like this and never pushing anyone to the point where they actually get told straight. You’ve done her a favour. She’s not a good communicator and whether that upsets her or not, you’ve given her something to think about and act on. Gentle hints clearly won’t work.

There’s a lot of ‘socially inept’ people who are undiagnosed. Seemingly ‘socially inept’ is very much the key part of autism. A lot of people don’t actually know what autism is as a condition.

My ex monologues at me, he has a severe case of ‘this one time at band camp’ syndrome as I call it. No matter how the conversation starts (only around the children on my end), it turns into an eternity being spoken at about him/his life. He’s 99.9% certainly autistic (not just based on the monologues but there is a lot of difficulty with understanding social communication).

How you reacted to it though, is utterly bizarre. I’m not sure at all where the ‘hilarity’ that others are seeing is at. You have been an absolute wet lettuce, refuse to straight out say ‘mate you’re going on now, can we just have our order’ or avoid the pub, then turn it up to 11 with a ridiculous vocal reaction? It’s embarrassing for everyone involved.

Totally wrapped up in her own little world, no self reflection or self awareness, I wouldn’t give people like that an audience

Never, ever, ask someone who talks too much how they are. But why are you still going to the pub knowing that she’ll be ready & waiting to talk at you?

If I had witnessed this I would have thought you were insane and I would probably avoid you in the future.

Don't get me wrong, this other woman sounds annoying and I'd probably try to avoid her as well. But people who gabble on and never let anyone else speak are ten a penny. And everyone knows that all you do is let them talk themselves out and then avoid them if you don't fancy sitting through the monologue again. It's no big deal.

Whereas making a random noise mid-conversation makes you seem both crazy and mean, because it was obviously designed to embarrass someone who is ultimately just annoying bit harmless.