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Talk the talk to hear one’s own talk
May. 1st, 2013 12:26 pmI think it only fair to set the stage. Sure, I have been called arrogant before. In fact, I really cannot think of a time in my life when I haven’t been called that. I don’t believe I have ever really gone out of my way to act superior to anybody else. If anything, I am usually in quite the contrary situation – fighting my own inner self-doubts and insecurities and feelings-of-inferiority. Perhaps it is a Cook Family thing. One thing that my parents and siblings and I all have in common would have to be our dynamic personalities. There were never any shrinking violets in my home growing up. If anything, with all the noise and the chaos of siblings, and friends, and visitors, and extended family, and who-knows-what-occasions going on; one almost had to shout to be heard over and above the rest of the sensory-overload.
So, long story short, if I have something that I truly believe needs to be said, I will generally find a way to say it.
But then we have that annoying-as-hell-creature who strikes like a social-malaise: the guy who talks just to hear himself talk. This is the person who THINKS he’s funny, and constantly throws jokes out, and laughs at his own jokes without picking up on the fact that nobody else is laughing with him. This is the person who has to pipe in to a conversation, even if he knows absolutely NOTHING about the subject – a fact that becomes painfully apparent to everyone in a matter of seconds. This is the person who has only so-many-catch-phrases, but in a short amount of time has made them indelible in your brain simply because he says them over… and over… and over…
.. in short, this guy is a goober.
And for whatever reason, I’ve run into this personality type a few times in a few capacities as of late; and I’m really just losing my patience for it. I don’t know if this is really something relatively new, or if perhaps I have grown more sensitive to it as of late. I find myself going back and forth between, “Now, now… he’s not a bad guy. He’s just (trying too hard/socially awkward/overcompensating/etc.” and “I DON’T REALLY CARE! HE WON’T STFU AND I WANT TO JUST THROW SOMETHING!”
Siiiiiigh… Ever run into that type?
So, long story short, if I have something that I truly believe needs to be said, I will generally find a way to say it.
But then we have that annoying-as-hell-creature who strikes like a social-malaise: the guy who talks just to hear himself talk. This is the person who THINKS he’s funny, and constantly throws jokes out, and laughs at his own jokes without picking up on the fact that nobody else is laughing with him. This is the person who has to pipe in to a conversation, even if he knows absolutely NOTHING about the subject – a fact that becomes painfully apparent to everyone in a matter of seconds. This is the person who has only so-many-catch-phrases, but in a short amount of time has made them indelible in your brain simply because he says them over… and over… and over…
.. in short, this guy is a goober.
And for whatever reason, I’ve run into this personality type a few times in a few capacities as of late; and I’m really just losing my patience for it. I don’t know if this is really something relatively new, or if perhaps I have grown more sensitive to it as of late. I find myself going back and forth between, “Now, now… he’s not a bad guy. He’s just (trying too hard/socially awkward/overcompensating/etc.” and “I DON’T REALLY CARE! HE WON’T STFU AND I WANT TO JUST THROW SOMETHING!”
Siiiiiigh… Ever run into that type?
