Seminar Derailed By Person In Front Row With Hand Up Again
The presenter of a weekend continuing education course has admirably managed to avoid openly rolling his eyes at an overly enthusiastic attendee. The eager beaver course participant, who was seated front-row-centre, interrupted the presenter with no fewer than seven uninvited and irrelevant comments within the first hour of scheduled proceedings.
“Fuck me, this bird may as well get up there and deliver the course herself”, muttered an increasingly frustrated participant to himself from the back row of the makeshift lecture theatre. “Reminds me of those chirpy mature age students at uni who used ask questions instead of being half asleep and hungover like I was”.
Several event participants reported that the eager beaver participant interjected her unsolicited and predominantly irrelevant thoughts with perfect timing- pouncing on any pause provided by the presenter between slides or sentences. And such was the strength of the stream of her verbal diarrhoea, it was clear to all participants that there was no salvaging it… at least 50% of the weekend’s learning opportunities would be squandered under the weight of the eager beaver’s aimless and enthusiastic love of the sound of her own voice.
“I felt so sorry for the course presenter”, said one participant to our reporter. “He was very professional and politely acknowledged her comments while trying to move things along... You could tell he was getting impatient. But in the end I don’t think it would’ve mattered what he said… She was too busy trying to make sure everyone else there knew how smart she was - haha”.
Despite dominating the flow of the morning’s proceedings, the eager beaver showed no signs of letting up during the lunch break, tacking left and right trough the mingling crowd in an attempt to bail up the course presenter for a one on one barrage of answers to questions that nobody asked. But to his credit, the course presenter was up to the challenge. He positioned himself in open spaces, minimising the risk of getting trapped in a corner with no escape route. And when things got a bit too close for comfort, he put on a skilful side step past the coffee table and slid away to the bathroom.
"This aint my first rodeo”, he told our reporter.
