Boring man on next table in cafe

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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?

Don't worry, OP. There's a thread in a similar vein running on AIBU at the moment and many posters are similarly miserable.

Personally, I find overheard conversations fascinating, so I love a thread like this. And (also personally) if there's a thread I'm not interested in, I usually click away from it.

But we're all different.

I know what your saying Wood!

Ok top trumps in the overhearing dept...
I was in Sainsburys cafe two days ago and sat next to a table wher a couple of rough looking men sat . They talked loudly about going to Vegas to watch a boxing match but couldnt afford the £700 seat etc..all this at full volume and lits of effing and blinding .
They are jouned by three other men , one introduces himself to the others and they talk ,again very loudly, about buying premium data lists of Sky customers , people in arrears with various debts , and offering extended warranties and ppi stuff .They talked about getting people in the north east to set up front companies and use their addresses , "they'll do it for a drink" , as the men talking were too well known to credit card processing companies to be able to get business accounts in their own name .
There was more of this type of conversation..basically they were setting up some kind of scam, and had criminal records themselves...but they were so loud !
One of them said he was clearing 6to7 grand a month...Im a bit broke at the moment and almost asked if i could join .
When they left a woman at another table turned to me and shook her head..."I dont think I'll be taking out any policies over the phone !"
They drove off in very tatty cars so cant be doing that well!

Does no one else find other people interesting and funny?
Seems you found this guy was neither.

And so uninteresting and unfunny you're still talking about him 🤔

I love a bit of people watching. Was fascinated by a couple out for lunch the other day. They both sat looking at their phones and didn't say a word to each other. Made me think being single isn't that bad

i suppose if it was a life or death situation you do dine out on it so to speak it probably still plays on his mind but no doubt his poor wife has heard it many times!

I often hear people try to change the subject with other people and have a smile to myself!

Actually, I think you must have been listening to a not so dear friend of ours.
Every single conversation is turned round by our self absorbed, thick-skinnned, tone-deaf friend to be about him.
His children have bets about how long it will take him to turn a general convo into one centring him.
His ailments are the most unusual, (not) his experiences the most exciting, (definitely not) his opinions the most important (riiiiight) and so on.
He has no idea that he's just a boring, repetitive dick.
And breathe. I feel better for that.

Witnessed two acquaintances bumping into each other in a supermarket. One said 'How are you?' and the other launched straight into a loud and graphic squit-by-squit account of his diarrhoea

Oh, I sat across from a right character on the bus a few weeks ago. He talked solidly to his female friend for my entire 25-minute journey, possibly continued after I got off. I (and she) learned that:

• He had a terrible accident and was told he would never walk again, but defied the doctors and made a full recovery - they were amazed

• He was once chased across the extensive family lands by a gun-wielding uncle (he did not say why), but escaped unharmed

• His family are wildly successful and wealthy and begged him to take over their business, but he wanted to forge his own path, so...

• Set up his own (unspecified) business, which is rife with (unspecified) danger and requires him to manage many shady and unsavoury characters, which he does with aplomb

• He has a fleet of luxury cars in his country, which he will show his friend when she comes to visit (unsure why he is riding the bus with us proles here in UK!)

• He has a beautiful friend named Irina, who was a top lawyer. He offered her a job with his company, but she said no. Then she was attacked and the police did nothing, so our narrator tracked down her attacker and "dealt with" him (heavily implied he killed him ), after which Irina was so grateful she quit her lawyering, came to work for him as his PA and named her first-born son after him

There was more, but I remember these bits because, well, why wouldn't you? and I was live texting the highlights to DP