my grandmother used to do it. she’d call me, ask me about my day, and then ignore and interrupt me once i began to answer her question. there are few things i can think of that were less infuriating. god rest her soul, she was a wonderful woman otherwise, but i still can’t shake that feeling of worthlessness i felt whenever she did that - and she never had any idea it mattered, because i’d never dare call out my own grandma.
i just realized what i thought was wrong… i’m using old.lemmy.world, which apparently doesn’t display it like you’d expect. oh well. old.lemmy has a ton of faults, but i still try to use it as much as possible over the other options. because i’m old, too.
Question: where do you draw the line between when you totally space when someone else is talking and vs getting offended when you realize the other person isn’t listening?
edit - why isn’t strikethrough not working for the suggested formatting?
my grandmother used to do it. she’d call me, ask me about my day, and then ignore and interrupt me once i began to answer her question. there are few things i can think of that were less infuriating. god rest her soul, she was a wonderful woman otherwise, but i still can’t shake that feeling of worthlessness i felt whenever she did that - and she never had any idea it mattered, because i’d never dare call out my own grandma.