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Boring man on next table in cafe

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Whereareyouspot · 23/03/2019 14:19

Am in cafe having a pot of tea
Man arrives on next table with his wife and four friends.

He has been droning on and on and on about a recent medical issue for the best part of half an hour

ALL about the build up, how crap the GP was, how he diagnosed himself, had to have morphine, what the nurses said when he got to hospital etc etc

The friends have tried to change the topic at least three times and he keeps coming back to it

Why are people so obsessed with their own health experiences?

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ScreamingValenta · 23/03/2019 14:21

Cut him some slack - if he was given morphine, whatever it was must have been pretty horrendous, because it isn't prescribed lightly.

Tomtontom · 23/03/2019 14:29

You don't need to listen.

Sirzy · 23/03/2019 14:30

Don’t earwig then!

Perhaps he needs to get whatever has happened off his chest! Bottling things up isn’t good

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FrenchSchnoodle · 23/03/2019 14:31

I think you're actually being mean. Just move further away or stick some earphones in.

Palominoo · 23/03/2019 14:31

Wind your neck in Mrs Mangel.

Crunchymum · 23/03/2019 14:31

So what was up with him then?

Chocmallows · 23/03/2019 14:35

I'm wondering if you meant this in a lighthearted way and now being pulled apart. FWIW I would be nosey and listen like you.

I would assume his friends want to cheer him up after already listening to the same thing many times.

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Whereareyouspot · 23/03/2019 14:36

Ha ha you lot are funny!

I’m so near I can’t not hear and honestly his friends are constantly trying to change the subject but he won’t have it
From what he’s saying it was last summer! And he has clearly become a full on medical expert since his experience as he is telling his friend how badly he is managing his own GP right now! Lots of ‘you need to tell him what for .

His wife looks like she might walk out soon. I think she may have heard it before.....

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midsomermurderess · 23/03/2019 14:36

How interesting do,you think you are to,other people? That you post this, I'm guessing, not very.

TheVanguardSix · 23/03/2019 14:42

Well if it's going to be that kind of party...

What an absolutely boring thread. I'm off! Bye!

TheQueef · 23/03/2019 14:44

How boring are you that you had to tell random internet people about the boring man?

Aragog · 23/03/2019 14:47

Why are people so obsessed with their own health experiences?

Because something fairly major has affecting his own health? Maybe it had a profound effect on him since, and it is way of processing it.

You only have to read the number of birth stories on MN to see that most people are fairly obsessed with their own health and medical experiences.

I think that's pretty normal tbh.

Just occupy yourself and try not to listen.

Its up to his own family and friends with him to tell him to stop if they want to.

JustHereForThePooStories · 23/03/2019 14:47

I don’t know, OP, you’ve found him interesting enough to start a thread on MN about him.

Not sure what that says about you?

Beechview · 23/03/2019 14:50

I think it’s funny!

I went out for a coffee and there was a man talking to two men about what they should be doing to keep a girlfriend. He sounded like some kind of relationship coach and was grilling them ‘when was the last time you bought her flowers? When? What? That’s a blatant lie. You are NEVER too busy to not be able to pop out and buy her a gift. Busy is an excuse!’
I was fascinated and eavesdropped til they left.

Pinkbells · 23/03/2019 14:51

How boring are you that you had to tell random internet people about the boring man?
Grin Grin

LividLaughLove · 23/03/2019 14:52

I'm with you, OP.

I euphemistically call this "people watching". Despising people in public places (who never notice your existence) is the delight of the lone diner.

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Whereareyouspot · 23/03/2019 14:53

Oh you lot are such miseries sometimes!
Its funny. It’s the reaction of those with him that’s most amusing.

Honestly he does sound the most self absorbed know it all.

Does no one else find other people interesting and funny?

I have no intention of being rude to him or making him think I have an opinion. I’m sure they all love him deep down Grin

I’m sat quietly on my phone.

He is about four cm away from me so I’m sure under no illusion that I can hear.

And I don’t bring headphones with me when I go for a walk and a cuppa sorry!

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Whereareyouspot · 23/03/2019 14:55

Oh I’m very boring Queef.

I’m sure a thread will pop up about the boring middle aged lady with her dog having a pot of tea in a cafe in a boring town in England.
Fire away!

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Bringbackthestripes · 23/03/2019 14:58

Some people you can’t not hear. Like the very loud woman 3 tables over from us last summer.

“Harley Street....well it was expensive to go to Harley Street.....felt mum deserved to go to Harley Street....not everyone has the luxury of Harley Street....of course Harley Street is the...”

Of course said extra loudly so people knew she could afford Harley Street - totally ruined our lunch out.

Disfordarkchocolate · 23/03/2019 14:58

I loved a bit of 'people watching' perfect amusement when you're on your own. Or, if your other half enjoys it too you can happily giggle away as you will the wife to run away screaming.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 23/03/2019 14:58

Having just been to a pet shop with one woman doing that performance parenting thing with her dog I have very sympathy with you!

Other people can be so intrusive, loud and interminably boring!

woodcutbirds · 23/03/2019 15:02

I'm with you OP. Can't stand self-pity monologues, espcially about health issues. Yes, we sympathise that you are in pain. No we can't do anything about it. Now stf up. We too all have ailments, some life long and debilitating. You don't know about them because we are too polite to bore you with them. Talking to my father there. It could be him at that cafe table. Where are you OP? Somewhere pretty in the South West by any chance? Grin

BusterGonad · 23/03/2019 15:02

I'm just glad they are listening to him, I have a health condition myself and sometimes I'm just screaming out to get my fears and worries heard but then I stop and realize that actually no one is interested and I just have to bottle it up and get on with it!

Palominoo · 23/03/2019 15:03

Park up a chair next to him and tell him about your piles.

woodcutbirds · 23/03/2019 15:58

Buster I'd happily listen to someone like you talk about their medical woes. It's people (Ime, usually men) who think the world is fascinate dby nothing but their ailments, and who think they are the only one in the world to ever have had an ailment, and who know better than all of the ridiculous doctors, and who never chuffing shut up about it... they're the ones who need to shut up and OP's man sounds like one of them.