Do you know people who get TOO excited?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (205263)
Walnut Creek, California
May 29, 2016 12:30pm CST
I played a gig last night with the Western Swing band I'm in. In the audience was a friend of mine who has a heart of gold, but sometimes doesn't read social cues. When he gets too excited, he talks on and on about things people don't care about.
After the gig, I could hear him all the way across the restaurant/bar, going on and on about St. Mary's College baseball, a subject my other friend (the lady who runs the preschool where my abused sunflower is now safe and sound) could care less about. He just gets too excited and can't stop himself.
In music, too much excitement can manifest as "speeding up." Someone will take a solo, and they'll start playing faster and faster, messing up the rhythm of the song. Banjo players (for whatever reason) are notorious for this.
In any case, do you have friends who occasionally get TOO excited? How does it show itself? I was going to write about how my fingers help up on bass, but this question flooded my mind this morning like a musical ear worm.
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@Lolaze (5093)
• St. Louis, Missouri
29 May 16
I am, unfortunately, one of those people. I will go on and on about something I get too excited about, even if those around me find it boring. My friends have learned to either tolerate me until I calm down or smack me upside the head to shut me up.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
29 May 16
Sometimes when my friend gets excited about something she raises her voice, louder and louder as she goes on about something. Lol.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
29 May 16
@TheHorse Lol, yeah I know the feeling very well.
@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
29 May 16
I have had friends like that, whose enthusiasm for a subject far surpasses the willingness of others to listen. As a middle school teacher, I often have to deal with students who get way to excited about seemingly minor things.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 May 16
it can be hard to be that person, it may drive off potential friends, so you get desperate for friendship, talk more and push more people away, in a nasty depressing cycle of...well lackafriend
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 May 16
@TheHorse group therapy can help with that, or so I vaguely remember from masters classes, if the facilitator is good. I am 2 semesters from finishing a counseling degree. If I ever went back there are things I'd want to retake and start over on, but NOT the math. Good havens masters statstics? Never again.
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
31 May 16
@TheHorse My problem is that I don't see people that often, so when I do it's easy to fall into the trap of talking about myself too much. Now that I've made myself more aware of it, I try to steer conversations on to the other person or other things. I'd hate to push people away even more because of looking too needy!
@rusty2rusty (6751)
• Defiance, Ohio
30 May 16
Yes, I have a teen daughter with ADHD who gets excited every easily. Sometimes it is hard to calm her down.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
29 May 16
I don't think i have friends like that, but last Friday i met a client who was too excited to see a new house she talked and talked about everything even her personal lives like how her mother raised 6 of them and how her parents separated.
I get too excited sometimes especially when we plan to go on a trip...i couldn't sleep the night before that.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
30 May 16
@TheHorse everything including her drunkard uncles and how much money the were making. Oh and she added about her grandfather who was in the US army then. She just left the part about her and her boyfriend lol.
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@FourWalls (61951)
• United States
30 May 16
:::raising hand::: Me! Me! Me!! Get me started about music and I will not shut up!!!! 
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@Drosophila (16573)
• Ireland
29 May 16
I used to be that person, after I have been repeatedly told to curb my enthusiasm, I now do a great job.
I was surprised to hear my friend describe me as reserved the other day lol
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
29 May 16
Fortunately, I don't have any friends like that, although I can tend to talk about things nobody cares about.
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@vandana7 (98731)
• India
30 May 16
I think those who get too excited are desperate to be accepted ...have some rejections which have led to low self esteem...by being animated in their talk..they are either covering up their insecurities that usually surface in company or are trying to get others interested in them and accept them. Either way, they need a good friend.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16518)
• China
30 May 16
I can't remember for the moment that I have such a friend as your friend who is as excited as a drunken one that talks endlessly ,even doesn't care about whether or not what he says goes down well with others.He must be of extroversion.
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