[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Redway

I'm not the sort of person who'd actively tell someone to button it just because I'm trying to talk but yeah. In internal reality I have as much tolerance for being interrupted when I'm speaking as Judge Judy. Ditto for people playing music on a bit too loudly over people they know have low or quiet voices and just expecting them to comfortably project over it. In my book of unwritten etiquette you lower the music for anyone but especially someone who obviously doesn't talk as loud and you air more on the side of being inclined to hear them out without too much interruption. People fundamentally have different ways of subtle communication when it comes to expectations and preferences and they can just be taken the wrong way or misinterpreted if the person's someone who needs a while to get used to you (if, say, they ain't used to people listening to them more than trying to jump in when they're talking). You'd think that usually it would be fine and that might be true but crossed wires still happen here-and-there.

I meant to say correct "interpretation"