Over lunch today, I realized I have very low tolerance for people who cannot stop talking. The moment they start on something, I feel my eyes glaze over and I find myself tuning out.

It is as if the person in question cannot humanely limit her replies to no more than two sentences. It is one thing when she is actually making a point – even so, only after veering off in ten thousand tangents - and another altogether when she is yakking for the sake of yakking.