I talk to old people sometimes, regularly in fact...

but have you ever been in a situation where it's been 2 hours, and they're not even telling stories, it's just mundane bullshit about how they picked out a pumpkin over and over again, but they don't even stop to take a breath, they just keep going and going. Yeah, how do you tell a miserable, lonely, old person that you just really have to go because frankly I don't feel like wasting hours of my life acting as Xanax?

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SW-User

Elderly people can often feel invisible and ignored so it’s always good to give them time. You could perhaps be the only person they’ve had a conversation with all day.