I've noticed people do that to you as well, and I thought it sucked. People used to do it to me all the time too, sometimes still do, athough I'll generally go "Hey! Wait your turn!" at about half the people who do it now.
My reaction to someone interrupting me while I'm trying to talk to someone varies from "well, they were telling her the building was on fire, so I'm not offended" to turning around and saying loudly "Hello, who the hell are you?" if they interrupted in a particularly rude way.
There's a particular way of being interrupted that really gets to me - when the person doing the interrupting shows no sign of having even noticed you were speaking or were even present in the room. In a club this would just make me stick to the dancefloor for a while; in a pub or a private party I often just immediately put my coat on and go home. It has more effect than anything I could say.
You've noticed people do it to me? Goodness. You really haven't known me for very long, so if you've already noticed it then I clearly can't have been imagining it! That's sort of reassuring, in a way.
"There's a particular way of being interrupted that really gets to me - when the person doing the interrupting shows no sign of having even noticed you were speaking or were even present in the room."
ARRRRRRGH! Yes. YES. That one is what I always remember from all the particularly obnoxious examples of the phenomenon. I'm paradoxically kind of glad that isn't just me, either (although at the same time I'm not glad it happens to you, IYSWIM).
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My reaction to someone interrupting me while I'm trying to talk to someone varies from "well, they were telling her the building was on fire, so I'm not offended" to turning around and saying loudly "Hello, who the hell are you?" if they interrupted in a particularly rude way.
There's a particular way of being interrupted that really gets to me - when the person doing the interrupting shows no sign of having even noticed you were speaking or were even present in the room. In a club this would just make me stick to the dancefloor for a while; in a pub or a private party I often just immediately put my coat on and go home. It has more effect than anything I could say.
"There's a particular way of being interrupted that really gets to me - when the person doing the interrupting shows no sign of having even noticed you were speaking or were even present in the room."
ARRRRRRGH! Yes. YES. That one is what I always remember from all the particularly obnoxious examples of the phenomenon. I'm paradoxically kind of glad that isn't just me, either (although at the same time I'm not glad it happens to you, IYSWIM).