Oh, I didn't look up "crass thing sayer" :-)

I have a good friend who is a compulsive talker and we all just "laugh" at her and tease her about it and she knows it's a problem. I think there are people who are compulsive talkers who don't know it and get defensive if someone tries to "help" them see it.

I've found frustration can be eased by a bit of humor so I look for that when I can remember to. This morning I was doing the bills with my husband and our system is complicated with investments, online bill paying that has to be checked and entered into the checkbook, etc. and I hate the little check register that comes with the checks so we got in a fight about that again. But then I left an automatic payment that I'd checked off the budget (I have to turn them "green" in Excel when they get paid :-) out of the checkbook so he had to point that out to me and I was just having a heck of a time. We work out on our new 3-season porch, a literal porch with huge windows that have screens in the summer to be like a screened porch but which we have closed and little electric heater going ,etc. My husband's "desk" out there is a picnic table. Well, I dropped the pen I was using, working on the checkbook into one of the cracks where the boards come together on the top of the picnic table and had trouble getting it out. We both started laughing and that broke all the tension of the bill paying. It was all just an unfortunate "hassle" today but not a serious or permanent state.