Saying 'What'. 'pardon me', or 'huh' when you heard me.

[Leroy]

Our receptionist has a problem. Well, many problems. But this is really grinding my gears.

I sit maybe ten feet away, and people that sit 20 feet away hear me just fine. But every time I say something to this one, she replies, usually with 'pardon me', but sometimes 'what' or 'huh'...sometimes before I have even finished. I now know that she hears me most of the time, she just uses it as a stall to process what I have said. Sometimes when she does it, I will just sit there, and she will process what I had said. It drives me up a wall. I've told her about it, but she still does it. I don't need an immediate response...take your time and think!

[cardinalkarp]

I do this all the time and it pisses my wife off so much. In fact it pisses me off, I'm not even sure why I do it.

She finally says, "you know what I just said" and won't repeat herself. It really sucks when its in the case that I actually didn't hear her.

[Leroy]

Oh, sorry karp. I didn't know you were one of those people.

My wife used to do it a lot also, but she doesn't do it so much anymore.

It would be nice if I could finish a sentence without being interrupted.

[cardinalkarp]

Oh, sorry karp. I didn't know you were one of those people.

My wife used to do it a lot also, but she doesn't do it so much anymore.

It would be nice if I could finish a sentence without being interrupted.

I'm always courteous and wait till my wife's done w/ the whole sentence though.

[Cronos]

Don't know if I still do it, but when I was a kid I used to say "What?" or "Huh?" after a person was done speaking not because I didn't hear them, but because I couldn't believe what they just said or didn't understand what they just said. It used to tick my older brother off like nothing else.