So this has happened to me a couple of times and I really don't know how to handle this. So looking for ideas if it happens again.
There I was talking to person A when person B has come up to me to talk to me about something completely different. Just cuts me off mid sentence. A & B don't know each other. I was in the town center as there was an event on so was in a public space.
Previously when it happened A and B were two different people to A and B today.
If I talked to person A then I'm being rude to B. If I talked to B then I'm rude to A. I don't want to be rude to either. So how do I politely say to B that I'll talk to them when I've finished the first conversation? "sorry 2 mins, I'm just talking to A here" or will that make both A and B uncomfortable?
My DCs tend to do it when I'm talking to DH, but that's easy to deal with cos I don't need to be as polite to them and me telling them not to do it is trying to instill some manners to them. Its not something that I can say to someone outside of my family in the same way.