to think that if you are changing the subject you should ^say^ you are changing the subject?

[Bogeyface]

Discussing a computer trolley with H as our current arrangement is a PITA so we need something on wheels. Fairy Nuff, conversation rolls to a natural stop after agreeing where it will go and what we need.

Then....

"I have found one that is 46 cm diameter and 71 cm high"
me - "Diameter? Thats a bit odd, dont they mean width?"
"No, diameter"
follows lots of discussion about width v diameter and it turns out that he is talking about the Ali Baba basket we need for the laundry that we were discussing yesterday!

Apparently IABU to not have understood that! I said that he could have mentioned he was talking about the basket and he said that it was obvious!

YANBU!

My DH does this, and if I had a £1 every time I've ended up thoroughly confused because he'd randomly started wittering on about something else in the middle of a conversation, I'd be a very rich woman

Maybe he is psychic and just hasn't realised that you are not reading his mind,

he has clearly been practicing, so tomorrow don't say anything all day, just think it and see how good he is.

I have just been told that if I didnt finish off conversations with him that I started in my head then he might be a bit more understanding.

And unfortunately, he has a point! I tend to run them through in my head until I get to a point where I am not sure what he would say and then say outloud "So do you think we should have chicken or fish?" and he is understandably a bit confused.

Bugger. Thought I might have won that one!

Bogey I do exactly the same apparently! I have been thinking silently about stuff and will suddenly come out with random statements like, 'So I think she was being completely unreasonable and why would you want lilac stripes?'...

And then DH gives me his WTF face...

I am known to wake suddenly, sit up in bed and demand that my husband comes up with some obscure figures for a part of what ever project we are working on, or demand the internal measurements for a bath, or something.

He is quite well trained, he either gives them to me off the top of his head, or if he doesn't know, fobs me off with, "I'll have those for you before the next meeting, or tells me where to find them.

He doesn't know this is irrational behaviour and could be described as border line abuse, after twenty years he thinks it normal, I have always told him he is expected to know what I am thinking, it's his job.

I am however worried as he lurks on here, that this thread might enlighten him.

I'm up now, waiting for a client to phone, (stateside), no doubt I will have the meeting, and at some point wake him up to discuss something that I am pondering, he has found easiest thing is to go along with it.

Ha! I was just thinking about this tonight (can't sleep and it's almost getting-up time already now).

I do this. Used to drive my last boyfriend nuts. He never, ever followed the jump in reasoning and I'd always have to back up two steps. He was quite conversationally predictable though. I was gutted when he broke up with me, and took ages to get over it, although if I'm honest with myself I was getting a little bored.

Then I met DH... When I voiced a non sequitur he followed me. Sometimes he said what I was thinking before I got there. Sometimes we said it together. The first week we were together we spoke in sync so often it made that first flush even more amazing - "not only are you awesome but you totally get me!" We still do it sometimes. I don't find him at all boring or predictable but I love that we are in the same rhythm and never have to explain ourselves to each other.

I don't have that problem. What I do have is apparently talking to myself. I wait a few seconds at the end of a question or an observation and say 'do you have a response?'

Whereupon he'll say an exasperated 'yes!' to whatever the question was... as if I'd been nagging him for ages or hadn't heard his reply?

Why? Why do that? Why? Why?