Saturday's Symposium

Had an interesting lunch time discussion about people who tend to speak too long to the point where you are boring your audience so much that they start talking to each other. I guess this happened when some speaker at a grad in Flin Flon went on and on and on...you know the type. Somehow we got on to this discussion when I mentioned about going to grad's ( my opinion) what a waste of a good afternoon. Give me the diploma (in case I run out of toilet paper). I think we sometimes go a little to far ...after all a little knowledge can be a bad thing. I will let you know when i get a little ;) So my question here is how do you get long winded people to stop talking. I don't like hearing a story for the third or fourth time, even if it is told in a different way...same story...tell me once that's enough. The way I usually handle those long stories or stories that are told too freaking often...I just get up and leave. Believe it or not I wanted to be a cook or a chef, but I never stayed long enough other than to just stir the pot ;)~ I guess we all have topics that bore us to tears...I have so many in those categories that my mind starts daydreaming after the first few minutes. Can't wait to hear your advice on this one readers :)