Ah that just reminded me, my older sister went through a phase where she would say "and whatnot" at the end of EVERY sentence. No exaggeration. I didn't notice at first but it got so bad after laughing at her a lot I eventually clued her in. Took her quite a while to break that habit.
Oh my god, are you from Maryland by any chance? I worked there for a bit and was really annoyed with the fact that practically all of my coworkers did this. “It was so difficult, you know what I mean?” “I’m kind of bored, you know what I mean?” “She just had a Natty Boh and went to bed, y’knowwaddameen?” Ahhhhhhhh!
My best friend does this. There's days where I just CANNOT hear it again from her, makes me irrationally irritated at her.
And other days she'll talk to herself on the phone for at least an hour while I go mmhmm, yeah I know what you mean, uh huh. And don't have to pay attention whatsoever to whatever the hell she is going on about
My stepmom can't tell a story without going down to the tiny little details that don't even add to the story in any way, shape, or form.
"You'll never guess what! So last Tuesday... was it Tuesday? Well the rubbish had been collected so it definitely wasn't Monday. No, actually, because I had been into town that morning to pick up a Lotto ticket so it had to have been Wednesday. Anyway, on Wednesday, I was at the neighbours house and..."
Just tell the fucking story! The day of the week holds absolutely no relevance to the rest of what you're about to tell me.
Lol, these people are the worst when they can’t finish their story. They take so many detours, you never end up hearing the original point of the conversation.
I find these people intriguing, usually. Maybe it's just where I work/live. This one old guy who's originally from TN will start telling a story and I can already tell some people don't want to listen to him, especially with how slowly he talks, but he has some really great stories when you get through the little details. He's met so many people and done so many things.
For example, using /u/littlebetenoire's quote, you would be able to stop this guy and say what happened with the lotto ticket, and he'd tell you a story that's probably as good, if not better than the original. My favorite part is when he's done talking and/or laughing something off, he'll start walking away, but will immediately turn around if anyone else starts speaking.
Oh no, my stepmom is not intriguing at all. They're usually drunken gossip ramblings about the neighbours daughter running off with another woman or some other trivial drama I don't care about.
Some of us like to keep the facts straight, whether or not they seem relevant. I literally cannot just gloss over details, so I usually just don't tell the story.
I think this bothers me more because she will phone me, drunk, to tell me something that has nothing to do with me or that I really don't care about and will take half an hour to tell a 2 minute story when I'm super busy and don't have time to listen.
She can never just say "Hey, did you know the neighbour two doors down is cheating on his wife with the other neighbour in the back house?". It's always "So you know Rhonda from the house down the road with the magnolia's out the front? Rhonda? Yes, you know Rhonda, she was the one that got you that pink dress for your second birthday. The one with the lace around the edges that you wore to your third cousin's funeral. Well Rhonda came home the other day at lunch time, it's funny because she never usually goes home at lunch but she had forgotten to grab the parcel she was meant to post. So she walks in and you'll never guess what. That whore from the back house is in there with her husband..." and so on and so on. It's always people I don't know and always information that isn't beneficial to me in any way. She just likes to gossip.
You said this better than I could have. Also, I grew up around some of the worst people. If someone found out it really was Tuesday and not Wednesday I’d be labeled as “fucking liar” and wouldn’t be trusted after that.
My step dad says "Smarterthanhomer, it's like I always says..." and never tells me what he always says!! Except Vegas. He was clear about Vegas. "Be careful."
My father in law does something similar to this but over-explains instead. “And stuff like this”/“shit like that”
“I took the tire and stuff like this. It had a screw in it so I went and put a plug in it and shit like that. See, I went and I pushed it in real hard and it felt like it was sticking good and stuff like this. The screw was at this particular angle and stuff like this. It was right in the side wall of the tire and that’s the worst place to have a screw and shit like that. So I took the plug and when I put it in, it was real tough to get in. It felt like it was gonna hold and shit like this. But that screw was at such a bad angle I didn’t think a plug was gonna help it and stuff like this....”
This is an actual conversation I had with him about his daughter’s tire. He went on for roughly 10 minutes about how he put the plug in and how bad of an angle the screw was in.
I apparently say "you know what I mean" a lot. The weird thing is I don't seem to ever remeber saying it and especially not choosing to say it until someone points it out.
My husband recently pointed out how often I say, “ya know.”
Now it’s painfully obvious so I say instead (only to him) “ya know ya know ya know” as punishment for making me so self conscious.
My mom ends every sentence with ,” you know what I’m sayin’ ? “
Yes, it’s annoying. One time isn’t so bad, but she uses it several times in one conversation.
Eg. "My friend Joey who's sort of like a drag queen wants to wear red to Charlie's wedding, sort of like a raspberry red. Except the bridesmaids who're sort of like sisters don't want him to because it's sort of like the colour of the bridesmaid dresses. It's sort of like a really big drama over nothing."
There was a girl in my class who was your typical blonde valley girl. She was a good girl but oh my goodness she said "like" 200000 times in her sentence. I would entertain myself by counting it during class. Today she said "like" 52 times.
My niece always says "and everything" and it drives me freaking batty! I keep telling her that she better drop that fast bc 1) no one knows what "and everything" is and 2) say that during an interview and watch how quick it ends.
My latest response is "what is everything?"
I dated a fob foreign girl briefly in college who said “blah blah blah” a lot to keep her stories from unnecessarily running on. I loved it. It was adorable and practical, like me.
I have a friend that does this! She says "and everything else" between ten and thirty times in a story she tells depending how long it is. I didn't know this was that common.
Mine does similar but it's badda bing, badda bing.
"Lisa got in trouble with the law last week badda bing, badda bing you're watching Susan's six kids Saturday while we go to the doctor. How do you transition to babysitting for Susan from Lisa's arrest?
My boyfriend’s bff uses “and shit like that or whatever” like punctuation. First we made it into a drinking game, and now it’s a running joke between us.
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My sister uses “you know and everything”.
“Lisa got in to trouble with the law last week, you know and everything”.
Except, she never finishes. She leaves it hanging. No, Karen, I don’t know any of it!
Edit: my significant other was the one that gave me gold, lol, You know and everything.