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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hex08" data-source="post: 8340058" data-attributes="member: 7029595">Heck no. Some discussions become really long and are far to time consuming to dive into, especially when they wander off topic.It reminds me of that time back in 18-aught-nine when my neighbor Chuck would walk into a conversation and just start talking about stuff we moved on from. Now Chuck, whose real name was Higgins, would have a hard time focusing on the conversation so would often miss points that were made previously. We never did figure out why he was called Chuck. I think it started with his aunt calling him Chuck after receiving a blow to the head. You see, his aunt was a bit clumsy so would fall down the stairs leading up to their apartment quite frequently. You would think it was this clumsiness that caused her to hit her head but it wasn't. The neighbor kids would play games of stickball outside and one time little Charlie Parker, who was also known as Chuck, hit a fly ball on to the apartment roof which killed one of old lady Murphy's pigeons. Well, this really upset old lady Murphy so she threw the ball right back at the kids but since she was near blind her aim was off and it hit Higgins', or Chuck as we now call him, aunt in the head. I think that's when she started calling him Chuck. So Chuck was easily bored by conversations that just went on and on so his attention would wander. He would get this far off look in his eyes, you could tell he was thinking about something but he looked so deep in thought you just didn't want to interrupt. So as not to interfere with Chuck's thoughts we would just keep talking, usually about something unrelated to the original conversation and not even be aware we moved on or why. Sometimes we were not even sure what that original conversation was. When Chuck finally snapped out of it and started back in he would usually address the original topic. To be honest, by this point we had no idea what Chuck was talking about but he would wax poetic in such a way that we didn't want to stop him. Sometimes he would even talk about something unrelated. Like the time he first told us he thought Mary Sue who lived over on 4th Ave was the prettiest thing he ever saw. This was a bit odd because none of us knew a Mary Sue and 4th Ave was part if the financial district at the time so no one actually lived there. Now today that area of town is mostly abandoned. Once the fire of '42 broke out most of the businesses there left and never came back. It was a real sad state of affairs, especially when Mr. McDonnell lost his job and abandoned his family in shame. But either way, Chuck was a real good talker so we would just let him say what he had to say,.</blockquote>

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