to interrupt dp's often long and rambling anecdotes

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generally full of extraneous detail none of which sinks in or I will ever remember (although his final point is always worth a listen) which could take up to 5 minutes to answer dd's question which will take 2 seconds to reply to.

I too drive my dh nuts by interrupting him when he's whittering on

lol my dp is the same. It annoys me to buggery. He takes forever to get to the flipping point.

I don't see the problem in stopping to answer your dd's question as long as you're not doing it everytime he speaks.

If he's complaining about it maybe suggest a time in the evening where you can sit down adn properly listen to each other without kids interrupting.

I usually find that dropping in the 'aha's 'is that so' 'really' means he thinks I'm listening while I can carry on planning stuff for the next day in my head

Does he return to these anecdotes. Again and again? Only it is like living with an amiable echo at times, round here.

I employ the phrase 'spin on' accompanied by a winding hand movement.

Mine's in the middle of one now. I have no idea what it's about.

He thinks I'm listening.

My DM does this. I have just gotten off a 40 minute phone call with her, 20 minutes of which was about (I think) her neighbours repeatedly buying milk for each other. I zoned out at one point, but I'm now very good at picking up on the next comment when a response is required, and pretty much appearing to be interested/listening/not MNing

My DP does this as well.... he loves the sound of his own voice and thinks everyone else does too. It irritates me and the DCs no end!

When my husband has been drinking he does this. On and on and on and on and on.

I used to say "I don't care", but I have been told that is rude and I shouldn't say it to people any more

Gah! Yanbu.
My XH rambles for ages, about something that could just take one sentence. If he gets interupted though, he goes all the way back to the start again-like my DD used to, when she was 5!

I'm married to a witterer too.

YANBU !
DH sometimes uses diagrams too....

I pretend to fall asleep sometimes, with snoring.....

lol! my dh will think i am the OP, but have name-changed. Another (repeated) anecdotel teller here. Do you think men learn this v annoying habit at school, while us ladies learn "the look."

My Dh is the same, even worse in company as I then hsve to grin and bear it while inwardly screaming 'you are so boring, shut up'!!

Frosty mine likes me to guess people's age, as in

DH 'how old would you say x is,'

Me 'I have no idea'

DH 'well roughly, how old, go on have a guess.'

Me 'I don't know, I've never thought about it.'

DH 'guess, just guess'

Me '42'

DH 'no. she's 43. she looks a lot older than that doesn't she?'

and so on.......

My dh does this too, though without diagrams. Sadly interruptions are not tolerated from anyone. Drives me nuts!

Ha yes the diagrams.
Me:'can you tell me where so and so is?'
DP:' well I'll just draw you a picture'
Me:'what! JUST TELL ME!'
DP:'no no it's better if I draw it'
Me:'Aaaargh'

Plus wittering and digressing.

Hequet - your DH sounds like my DH, it's when he's had a few drinks. Normally he's too quiet! I have said "I don't care" as well, and his reply is "but I'm just saying, blah blah blah ..."

I tell DH to pause while I answer the DCs or listen to the end of something on the radio. I forget to unpause him. He won't use ten words if he can get away with 6000. And he talks very very slowly.

My dh trails away in the middle of a sentence! I am going to tell him to think of the complete sentence in his head first - THEN start to speak.
ds is picking up the same annoying trait!

I occasionally tell DP to get to the point. it does not go well. But my god why can't they just spit it out. The punch line is usually good, but the preamble kills me!

I don't care that the man who dropped the brick on his foot is called Fred, had a day off last week because he walked into a wall and his wife is called Jill and she's really nice and she brought cake in once on his birthday. I want to get to the bit where he's just announced he's a transsexual and would henceforth like to be known as Frederica.

Hah! My DH does all of the above. I'd assumed it was a genetic trait inherited from his mother. I find it almost too easy now just to switch off completely. He's caught me out a couple of times lately though so I'd better tune in a bit more often.

And no, YANBU.