A few minutes after strolling into the happiest cube on Earth this morning, two people in a cube adjacent to me began a conversation about a completely unremarkable topic. What was absolutely amazing was the continual interruption of one of them by the other with an overpowering stream of "Uh-huh", "OK", "Yeah" and "Right". The machine gun like, interruptor blast from this guy was relentless. So what else was there for me to do while draining my morning cup a joe, scanning Domino server logs (yeech) and being forced to listen to this??? Start doing a little of my own logging, of course. According to my stats, he managed to spit out
49 utterances of "Right"
85 utterances of "Uh-huh"
24 utterances of "Yeah"
24 utterances of "OK!"
Which, averaged out over the 10 minute collection period, breaks down to
4.9 Rights per/minute
8.5 Uh-huhs per/minute
2.4 Yeahs per/minute
2.4 OKs per/minute
and that adds up to 18.2 interruptions per/minute. Almost 1 interruption every 3 seconds.
That's almost as impressive as the guy at my last job who used to chew each bite of his Grape-Nuts cereal 15 to 20 times before swallowing.
Yes, I am completely insane.
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