Do people who love to go on and on and ON about their home improvement and decorating projects also like to listen to others do the same?

I know several people in business contexts who will seize any opportunity (or none) to deliver a spectacularly long description of some project they’re doing on their home or property.

It has nothing to do with the reason we’re speaking, which might be about, say, purchase of bonds, or some kind of contract work. Clearly I am expected to be a fascinated audience for an exhaustively comprehensive description of how they’re building a gate for their driveway or constructing wooden planters for their yard. My ability to sustain polite attention—when I am a customer engaging their time for my business purpose, and their personal projects are irrelevant—is tried to the limit.

What I want to know is this: when the guy with the gate project meets up with the guy with the planter project, do they listen to each other? Or are these folks one-way talkers who simply don’t care how much they bore people?