#121 Interrupting (Mid-Sentence)

The ability to be a good listener is an asset that a lot of people simply don't have these days. People tend to make more informed decisions based on the information provided if they are good listeners and catch everything being told to them. I understand that some people are simply hard of hearing to some degree or another, but when someone simply does not pay attention then blatantly cuts me off to say, "Huh??" in the middle of my thought or sentence, that really irritates the hell out of me.

If someone is speaking and you miss the first couple of words that they said, generally you can figure out the gist of what they're trying to say if you just keep listening. Once the speaker has finished their thought, if you still haven't grasped the point they’re trying to make, you can politely ask that they repeat what they said by telling them what you heard so they can fill in the rest.

But if someone begins a thought and midway through that thought (or word, even) you cut them off to blurt out "Huh??" because you didn't catch the first couple of words, that is completely rude and unnecessary.