Do you ever have that thing happen to you were you start to get self conscious about talking too much? But instead of stopping yourself, you hear yourself talk more and more- telling stories that involve the F word or things that happen to you in the bathroom? Then you make an awkward joke about talking too much, which makes everyone being tortured by you have to reassure you that you’re not being annoying? Then you finally get yourself to shut up only to be met by silence and curious looks by the people around you?
Then you wonder if maybe you weren’t talking too much, maybe you were actually being funny and now everyone is left without entertainment? So you decide to tell one more funny story, but it’s the graphic one about two old people you know who went to a swingers club? And the people laugh but you can totally tell that you crossed the line? So you explain that you didn’t mean tot cross the line, but comedy is a gamble and you have to be in it to win it but sometimes you lose? Then you get a few laughs off of that lotto joke which give you a little self confidence so you tell another story?
Then you realize you are dominating the conversation again so you try and ask someone else a question but they turn out to be a dud and answer you monosyllabically so you’re left having to rescue the conversation again? Finally it’s late enough to go and the whole cab ride home you can’t stop wondering if you’re the life of the party, the most annoying person ever or completely neurotic?
Yea. That happens to me sometimes too.
