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i happen to work near two
Mary Winters
highly emotional, talkative people.
It’s like having the radio on
all day - there they are
in the background making sound.
More like a soap opera, really.
I overhear recitations of grievances:
their pland to return defective
clothing at lunch. Their ongoing duel
with the electric company. Re-enactments
of phone calls with soon-to-be-ex-friends.
Rehearsals of dreaded of longed-for
encounters with parents, spouses.
Highly colored descriptions of our boss.
They cannot get a cup of coffee
from the cafeteria without spending
fifteen minuted describing some trivial
non-event of their trip, though I have
noticed it is extremelt difficult
for either of them to answer
a direct question. Sometimes
I’m interested in what they’re saying -
I like them both - but they remind me of
a computer I read about in a spy book
set “too deep” that always provided
too much detail. The art of summary
is unknown to them; they do not
sort or discern. I used to take part
in their conversation; I’d go home
exhausted with nothing to show for it.
Which is my basic problem with their
constant talk - what’s the pay-off?
