The guy thing is easy to explain,actually. It's all about the way men are. They seem to come into this world hard-wired for competition; a throwback to the caveman days. The best and strongest get the female thus perpetuating their gene pool.
Generally what happens is men only listen to the first half of what you're saying and then they start formulating their reply. If you pause at all, they cut you off or even start to talk over you. Now, not all men are like this, I'm just generalizing. The rise of women in positions of authority has adjusted this behavior somewhat but not all men have that sort of association with women. Men in long term realtionships with women tend to listen better although I know women who behave in the same manner.
It all comes down to courtesy. I would have stared him down and simply said,"Excuse me, I was answering her question." Then looked at the woman and said,"Typical, isn't it?" and continued as if he weren't there. Then again, I'm 57; been there, done that, bought the t-shirt more times than I care to remember. If the little maggot tried to give me any shit about it I would have asked him if his mother would be proud of his behavior at that moment. Anyways....
I could never write dialogue well and definitely not the details so I'm and editor. I have great ideas, I just can't follow up on them. I have all the respect in the world for script writers. Writing things out longhand is one of the techniques I use to help my writers remove writer's block. Things just seem to flow better.
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Generally what happens is men only listen to the first half of what you're saying and then they start formulating their reply. If you pause at all, they cut you off or even start to talk over you. Now, not all men are like this, I'm just generalizing. The rise of women in positions of authority has adjusted this behavior somewhat but not all men have that sort of association with women. Men in long term realtionships with women tend to listen better although I know women who behave in the same manner.
It all comes down to courtesy. I would have stared him down and simply said,"Excuse me, I was answering her question." Then looked at the woman and said,"Typical, isn't it?" and continued as if he weren't there. Then again, I'm 57; been there, done that, bought the t-shirt more times than I care to remember. If the little maggot tried to give me any shit about it I would have asked him if his mother would be proud of his behavior at that moment. Anyways....
I could never write dialogue well and definitely not the details so I'm and editor. I have great ideas, I just can't follow up on them. I have all the respect in the world for script writers. Writing things out longhand is one of the techniques I use to help my writers remove writer's block. Things just seem to flow better.