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Rant: an old guy at the DMV told me to stop telling long stories, and now my friends say I'm a different person
So last month I was at the DMV on a Tuesday waiting to renew my license, and this guy in his 70s next to me just stares at me and goes, 'You tell a story like you're getting paid by the minute.' I had just spent 10 minutes explaining to the whole row how I got a dent in my bumper, and he wasn't wrong. It stung at first, but he had a point. I started timing myself when I tell people things. Now I give the short version first and only add stuff if someone asks for more. My buddy Marcus noticed it before I even told him about the DMV thing, which was weird. He goes, 'Did something happen to you? You usually take 20 minutes to say what happened at the store.' I told my sister the other day about losing my keys and it took me maybe 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes. So my question is, has anyone else gotten called out for talking too much in a random place like the DMV or the grocery line? And did you actually change anything or just forget about it by dinner?
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holly_thompson9812h ago
How long did it take before the short version felt normal? Like was there a week where you kept catching yourself mid story and cutting it off? I ask because I had a similar thing happen in a checkout line, lady behind me said I gave her the whole movie when she just asked how my day was. I tried the short version thing for like 3 days and then slipped right back into my old ways. Curious if you had to practice it or if it just stuck after the DMV guy said it.
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