But it still annoys me!
Pregnant pauses…. dramatic pauses…. do you you really think I’m really that interested in what you’re saying that I’m…. hanging…. on…. your…. every….. word?
Most of the time, not. I’m letting you speak because I’m polite that way, but please don’t punish me! You get them on phone ins: they’ve got one point to make and then they wait. What are they waiting for? Agreement? What! Was that a convincing argument? A response? Sorry, can’t be bothered, it wasn’t very interesting. Perhaps they want tears or blood. I don’t know, but please, my time is precious, please don’t play fast and loose with MY time.
You get it on “reality” shows too. “The next person being evicted from the house is…..”, “The island I’m going to choose is….” then long low hum chord trying to build up suspense to a “don’t you think we already know what’s going to happen? We’ve seen them bitching from the start, so just get to it.” moment. You’d've thunk the producers could come up with something worthy of suspense as far as the suspense sound goes, you know, something like Jaws (dahh dum!) or Psycho (ee ee ee!) now that’s suspense, that’s fear.
Take a leaf from Sir Alan Sugar’s book: “You’re crap! You’re fired!”.
