Yes, I think that many people do not know how to be brief. They just keep talking about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market, shrimp, IRA's, snow tires, haircuts, coupons, pizza, rock salt, cucumbers, the new giraffe display at the zoo, last year's firework display, coffee mugs, China, turnips, springs, motor oil, umbrellas, Obama's haircut, leather upholstery, burned popcorn, orange peels in the garbage disposal, litter boxes, sandwich bags, gloves vs. mittens, ice cream sprinkles, cigars, light bulbs, continents, gliders, instruments, nephews and neices, gay marraige, non-gay marraige, getting married and turning gay, baseball players salaries, step brothers,stool softeners, sugar free sweets, circles, tax estimates, 56K modems, owls, lack of owls, gay owls, Partridge Family reunion possibilites, pear recipes, pediatrician molestation, sunday breakfasts, and causes for the Revolutionary War, and I for one am sick and tired of the entire situation.