Who was the most boring person you ever met?

Probably myself. I realized I’m actually kind of a boring person the other day.

If the day comes that I can’t learn something from another person, then I’ll be the most boring person I know.

A woman that I used to work with. She was quiet and didn’t say a lot. We used to eat lunch in the same group, and then everyone dropped away and it was just the two of us. I used to die of boredom. I always felt like I was a comedian dying on the Borscht belt trying to keep the conversation going.

She never had anything to say. She didn’t have any hobbies or interests.

Aghhhh! It was horrible.

@marinelife Hahah! I know what you mean. You almost want to physically run away from them due to the awkwardness.

My mother.

She didn’t like movies. She didn’t like music. She didn’t read books. She had no friends. She didn’t want to do anything. She didn’t want to go anywhere. She didn’t even like her own kids.

Stupid woman.

@marinelife Careful, you’re dating yourself with Borscht Belt. You don’t want people to think you’re boring. I have to ask that question now.

My brother in law. He use to carry a briefcase with held all his awards and paperwork of his fitness reports and orders when he was in the military and then he would give you a play by play about his military career as he showed you each sheet. The first time he started this my husband went off to bed (really early) and left me with the show and tell. Apparently he would do this each time he came home and my husband knew this. It was the longest night of my life. He just kept talking and I didn’t know how to get away.
As to what I learned, I learned not to be alone with his brother, ever, and to never use the word really or to ask a question in any way that may continue the torture.

Probably all the teachers I’ve had uptill now. I didn’t have a problem understanding them, but they were just very boring in person.

I just realized how similar boring people are. All the most boring people I knew were people who were monotonous, overly detailed and seemed to have no idea that their end of the conversation feedback loop was broken. They seem to have no awareness of the other person’s involvement, interest level, or reactions/lack of reactions. Where’s the DSM-IV diagnosis for this?? Oh nevermind, the DSM-IV was written by boring people XD

Yesterday’s boring conversation—a coworker going on and on about how one student was struggling with writing a lab report and how she explained it to him. 5 minutes. Overly detailed. Monotone. Like I could care less about how the student wrote his lab reports. I literally said, “Gotta go! Appointment!” and ran away. If I didn’t, she’d have invested another 10 minutes in explaining this information to me.

Some dude I met on top of Half Dome in Yosemite. He was so boring that I fell asleep watching him plummet to the ground, after I pushed him over the edge. ;-o

@Brian1946 Hahah! Listening to a dull, monotone scream on the way down.

My soon to be ex-son-in-law. He goes on at great length about topics of interest only to him with little regard to whether you are actually listening to him or not. He doesn’t seem to want an actual conversation, only to lecture.

I never met a boring person. Because I see interesting things in everybody.
One doesn’t have to be the greatest man not to be a boring person.
One doesn’t have to many stories to tell and not be boring.
One doesn’t have to visit half of the world not to be boring.

A few of the women I used to work with.

They have no interests outside of clubbing, drinking, and shopping. The only things they ever talk about are celebrities. I find people like that incredibly boring.

@Hibernate I don’t think it’s in what people do, but in how they tell about it. Some of the most interesting people I knew never traveled more than 50 miles away from their place of birth and they could tell them most fascinating stories. I also have sat through a world-traveling anthropologist’s lecture on “The gibberish-gibberish of the gibberish People in the gibberish of their gibberish Environment while gibberish and Considering the Impact of gibberish: A Review.”
It’s not in the story, but in the delivery.

Ben Steins delivery when taking attendance in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” has to be pretty close.

What was his name again?.........

My husband’s Aunt Ruby. She never talked. The only thing she ever did in her life, as far as I know, was paint pictures of lilies. In her younger days, she painted pictures for greeting cards.
She seemed to be completely passive. I was younger and didn’t know how to cope with someone like that. Now, I could interview her, at least, but I missed my chance.

I’ve had a couple of managers who have had no concept of what a social life is, that to me was boring, but to be fair they did know their jobs inside out :-/

Milo here: There are moments when Gail tops the list.

His name was Derek. I met him playing DND. He had the most bland personality I have ever encountered, and it infuriated me at the time because he always played neutral characters that NEVER DID ANYTHING.

However, he does have an uncanny ability to give a perfect high-five every time, so I would say that I learned that no person is truly, completely boring. You just have to look hard enough.

@linguaphile then you haven’t met any people who share the same stories every time they are socializing. I don’t find it boring but the idea of telling the same stories all over again.

I have been to meetings where some people just sit there and never say a word and don’t join in the discussions or contribute anything. To me, that is very boring.

I’m not very polite. I avoid boring people like the plague. I mean, literally. I report them to the CDC!

He looked awful as if there wasn’t much life to him and he had zero, I mean zero conversation. He just sat there blankly as if there weren’t any thought processes taking place inside his livid head. It turned out he was a zombie and once I fully appreciated this he was immediately a lot less boring.