#colonialspeaker

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Tell It To The Rain

How do I politely or wittily (preferably both) tell someone that when I'm talking privately with someone else, I'm not talking to you? It's so frustrating to have someone non-consensually insert themselves and dominate a conversation that they know nothing about.

For context, I was telling my partner how much I loved a show when a person just emerged out of their room and almost demanded one of us to tell them about the show. I can welcome this interest if I wasn't mid-sentence in explanation with another person. But the fact that I was interrupted then commanded to allocate my time and discussion to someone that doesn't have any value to offer me is incredibly annoying. A discussion has to have an equal exchange of respect. How do you handle when there's no incentive to talk with someone who talks over you in a discussion? Who doesn't listen?

The framing of the question was also incredibly rude imo, "what's this show about? And skip the prejudice. I just want to know exactly what the fuck is going on?" No one has to indulge your curiosity, especially when the approach was so abrasive. It comes across as entitled.

Tl;dr: fuck off...please.