to be annoyed when other people finish your sentence for you

[katemiddletonsothermum]

ARGH! So, you're speaking. And someone else butts in and talks over you. And they finish their sentence. But it's a different ending to the way you were going to finish the sentence so the conversation takes off in a whole different direction.

Or they're talking... and you answer their question. But they talk over you. So your answer is a) unheard b) invalidated c) why did you bother to even speak?

It annoys the hell out of me. Do these people even know they're doing it? I had a headteacher who was like that. Typical scenario:

"Hello, I have a problem with my son. He seems to be..."

"A high performing dyslexic. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"

thinks.... No. Bullied.

FFS. I don't think I'm a shrinking violet. Are these people so egotistical that they think no-one else's opinion matter? And how can people talk without taking a breath so that no one else can interject? FFS.

My FIL speaks so slowly and for such long periods of time that I am literally digging my nails into my palms whilst telling myself not to speak over him.

Listening to his stories is like torture.

Do you speak too slowly OP?

DS1 has speech delay and when he was at nursery the teachers were actually finishing his sentences cause he was slow....FFS!!!!!!!

YANBU

I have a slight speech impediment
I fucking hate it. I can speak and be understood. I am reasonably articulate. Fortunately people are more likely to realise they've been rude with me, I always raise my eyebrows when it's done to others or pointedly turn to the original speaker with a gesture to carry on.

Do you speak too slowly OP?

I think I speak relatively quickly. But the two culprits who immediately spring to mind speak at a thousand words per second, so they're quite exhausting to listen to, even under the best circumstances.

I feel that this type of person is being arrogant - they're effectively saying "What I have to say is more important than what you have to say, and you're too insignificant for me to listen to you speak."

The posters on here who admit to this trait are excluded from that statement - thank you for acknowledging that you do it, which makes me think that you're not too guilty of over-riding someone else.

Anyway, I'm going to take my dog to THE PARK? I LOVE WALKING MY DOG. HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE LAKESIDE WALK WE LOVE IT POOCH GET SO EXCITED the vet's to be put down.

No, not really. But you know what I mean.

Dgf had a story about an aunt who he used to stay with as a child who used to do that. On the train journey there he thought out some sentences which had unusual endings.
So he'd say:

Dgf: I went fishing at the weekend and I caught...
Dgf's aunt: A huge fish, I once caught a big fish.
Dgf: No, I caught absolutely nothing.

Apparently it cured her of doing it, everyone commented on it. She'd got into such a habit of doing it that she didn't realise that she was doing it so it just brought her up short and she then made an effort not to do it.
Apparently he confessed to her when he was an adult and she thought it was terribly funny.

My mum does this it is so irritating. When pointed out she will never apologise she will always say well it was taking too long, I just have a very quick mind it was so obvious what you/they were going to say etc. even more annoying is that she never gets it right anyway so the storyteller is constantly saying, no then continuing with what actually happened. It is taking a long time because you cannot stop interrupting!! There is no cure for her...

In 5 years of being together my DH has only once finished one of my sentences correctly. We high fived to celebrate.

shakes that made me think of a woman at my work who says 'oh right' in an amazed voice after about your first three words eg
'I went out this weekend-'
'Oh right!'
Yep that was the entire story...

I hate being interrupted but I never feel I can say anything to people who do it except DH who gets a telling off

This thread is right next to www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2461568-To-ask-people-to-turn-off-autocorrect?

on my Threads I'm On!

Finishing people's sentences is the Damn You Autocorrect of Real Life interaction!

Dammit, I forgot to punctuate!

"Damn you, Autocorrect!"

Autocrrect wouldn't have saved me from lack of punctuation, but an old-fashioned printing "cliché" would have done! Those were plates of set phrases, which spared the typesetters the labour of putting in all the fiddly little letters which made up phrases like "cool as a cucumber".