Randomness

On Monday I was teaching a class and we had a guest speaker come in who taught the kids Social Skills. She was talking to them about being random. Now, I never thought that people who were random irritated other people. I just thought they were changing the subject. Since I have been accused .of being random many times by my daughter Cherie I started listening to what the teacher was saying to the kids. Randomness is an essential conversational piece to get rid of in instances where the conversation is focused on one thing. I really don't get what randomness has to do with anything except that these kids had trouble with social skills.

The other thing that she talked about was talking non stop and not letting someone get a word into the conversation. She said that a conversation means that both people are contributing and one person is not being a 'know it all'. Being a 'know it all' is probably one thing that people who think that they are smart do. But thinking about it I get irritated when people are 'know it alls' because I feel like they don't care about what my opinion is. UGH! Have you ever had a conversation with a person who won't let you get a word in edgewise? It really isn't fun. It seems to me that I have called those people 'run at the mouth' people in the past. I am guilty of the same when it came to my history papers that I got really excited about but generally I don't have 'run at the mouth' disease.