Man you're on a roll. I have like three tabs of your entries open, but now I've gotten to the back of my today's friends scroll, so I'll start with this.

As someone who talks too much, I have sympathy for your dad--because yeah, being cut off, it really does lower you and make you feel like, shit, I must be one boring person, and: damn, must learn to talk less. (Buut, it's not a bad takeaway, maybe... If people have to interrupt you, maybe you should talk less and listen more…)

And yet at the same time, sometimes--like when you're trying to identify someone--all you want is that one key piece of info that will let you file that person away. And for you, and frankly, most of us, that was "Lindberg's wife." And sometimes you don't have time for a huge long conversation, and especially when someone seems switched to transmit and is just going to KEEP GOING.

That last thing you said about Anne Morrow, too: so true. It would be great to know a person for her own accomplishments and not just for being someone's wife. (OTOH, a lot of the stuff your dad was saying was about her dad and mom, too, so it was still identifying her in terms of others)

(I don't think you're a dick.)