A one sided conversation.

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That said, some people can just talk a glass eye to sleep.

Priceless

Maybe she is lonely ...

I have met people who do the opposite. They are conversation blockers and resist any efforts to engage them in small talk.

A recent conversation I had went something like this:-

Me - Have you been a member for long?

Them - No.

Me - When did you join?

Them - A while back.

Me - Do you come to all the meetings.

Them - No.

By now I am beginning to feel like I am interrogating them so I say something like "Lovely to talk to you" and move away.

I have a dear friend like that who talks over you. When we get together as a quartet, we let it go. I think she is becoming increasingly deaf and doesn't always hear others are still talking

People like that talk at you, rather than have a conversation.

A natural reaction is to avoid them, but that doesn't solve the problem! I read somewhere that a way to stop them is to interrupt them politely but use their name as in "Rita, I think ... " and keep doing that.

It reminded me of a woman that has popped up in various singing groups in our area, she doesn't sing, she bellows, complete with avcompanying hand gestures, and no one wants to sit next to her. I'm amazed she doesn't get the message. She will often say something like "I trained in theatre so I project my voice". She's a bit Florence Foster Jenkins ...

I know any number of people like in the op.

some people can just talk a glass eye to sleep

I love that expression, Never heard it before.

I have two friends who tend to do this. One day I realised they take a breath in the middle of a sentence so that they can run on continuously. The constant barrage soon does my head in so I resort to jumping up to go to the loo, faking a coughing fit or dropping my handbag - anything to create a diversion and allow me to get in to change the subject or remove myself entirely!

Or perhaps you come across as a sympathetic listener- goodness knows they can be few and fae between. I’d be flattered. Of course she has probably bored the bloomers off everybody else before you..
Do you wear a hearing aid? You could take the batteries out!

That said, some people can just talk a glass eye to sleep.

Some people do forget that conversation should be like a game of tennis - me to you, you to me etc. Otherwise it’s just a monologue.