What happened today is probably funny only to me but I'll share.
I have a dear friend of 80 who rings almost every day now.
I know, when I hear her voice that I am stuck for the next hour and often a lot more.
She starts to talk and I literally can't get in a single word, not even of agreement. Her monologue will ramble from one subject to the other, rarely actually finishing a sentence.
"Well I said to her...you know how she is don't you, that I wasn't going to let her do that and he said you're right so I went and got the beans from the pantry and do you know you can't get beans in the supermarket at the moment so I said to her you'll have to sew it but they went to Australia and they've been there ever since but I should have called the police, do you think I should have called the police my nephew's a policeman did I tell you but he works for the Council now has done for six years but you can't get beans for love nor money I'm told....'
And so on.
Yesterday, my portable phone simply ran out of battery life and it cut her off but today, when she rang and I apologised, in case she felt I'd hung up on her, she hadn't even noticed