Times when you just can't say what you want

Brid Hegarty

Can any of you think of a time when you simply weren't able to say something that you wanted to... or thought you'd be able to? I remember when I got my first bus lesson, the instructor was a friendly fellow and after the lesson, when we parked up, he spoke for too long. I didn't have it in me to politely tell him to shut up. 

I had paid for a two hour lesson, and when we parked up after the lesson, the instructor began talking about bus related matters. Some of it was interesting, some of it was good advice, but some of it was long winded, or else intertwined with his life philosophy. I remember him saying at one point "I don't do this for the money, that's why my lessons are cheaper... because in the long run people appreciate the good nature and you get it back in other ways... but you don't do it because you know you're going to get it back, you do it because it's the right thing to do". The thing was he wasn't really on my time anymore, as the lesson was over... so he was giving me this advice as a favour. I could have said to him "I don't mean to offend, but this is all quite long winded, and if my stomach wasn't beginning to rumble I'd like to hear more, but I do have to go soon so if there's anything else pertinent to today's lesson, could you say it in a more concise manner?" Who knows how he would have acted. Maybe it was because he was doing it as a favour, was the reason he felt he had the right reminise about his personal stories!

He then started talking about how the person getting the bus lesson should always get the instructor to slow down if they don't understand. Then another story followed about a time he was in hospital and a doctor dealt with him too fast. He called the doctor back and said "sit down here and explain that to me as if I was a 13 year old". Of course he was making the comparison with this, to me not being afraid to stop him during a lesson if he were explaining things too too fast. I'm sure he thought he was one of the nicest guys on Earth. But if he took offense at what I considered saying, then I'd have proved that to be untrue.

Esel

He spoke for too long? You are doing the same here....

Burt Renaults

All I can remember from my first bus lesson is thinking "Jesus, I'm driving a fucking bus!"

pgj2015

I would have just said, sorry to stop you but I have to go now as (insert any excuse here).

Burt Renaults

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117730617#Comment_117730617

"Sorry to stop you, but I have to go now as you're boring the tits off me"

Andrea B.

Just so you know you're not alone with such a dilemma, I have had occasions that food in my mouth was too hot to swallow.

I wanted to say "pass me the milk", but couldn't.

Instead,, I used the technique of pointing at my mouth with one hand and pointing at milk with other coupled with ape like grunts.

Brid Hegarty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117731449#Comment_117731449

You're so immature Andrea. Is it B for Bowdran by any chance?

Andrea B.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117738937#Comment_117738937

Consider it free therapy, as you seem to be overcoming your inability to say what you want now?

Sy Kick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117730503#Comment_117730503

You're there ages and no people speaking too long and then they all come along at once.

Gregor Samsa

Can any of you think of a time when you simply weren't able to say something that you wanted to

I can. I was godfather to a child being baptised. It came to the bit where the priest says "Do you renounce Satan, and all his works?". I wanted to say "NO! I commit my eternal soul to the Lord Lucifer!" and then pull a goat out of a sack and sacrifice it on the altar, and smear the child in the blood of the goat and declare him a Son of Beelzebub.

But I just said "I do" instead.

Actually, that happened twice.