Mom said Sis had talked and talked,
Throughout the live long day.
I asked her what Sis talked about,
Mom said, “She didn’t say.”

My granddaughter, Alyssa, is just emerging from the Chatterbox stage. She has been saying, “Why” in response to everything you say for quite some time now. After spending a day around her, I wrote Chatterbox.

It’s not only three year olds that can talk all day without saying anything. I know some adults with the same problem. I spent my last five years in the Air Force as the Air Force’s nuclear security inspector. In that capacity, I spent many hours on airplanes. It is a hard and fast rule that the interest ratio of the conversation of the person sitting next to you is inversely proportional to the length of the flight.

In all truth, I did meet some interesting people on some of those flights but the bores stand out. They probably went home and told their mates the same thing about me.