[nhoward14]

Much like the Ents in Tolkein, in Texas, it ain't worth sayin it if it don't take a long time to say it.

[gcruse]

it ain't worth sayin it if it don't take a long time to say it.

As long as I can remember, I have prefaced any new bout of conversation with a little history, or justification, or providing of sources for what I am about to say.  It has to come from insecurity of some sort, I'm sure.  Anyway, I went into my boss's office once and began the verbal groundwork to tell him what I was going to tell him.  It finally got to him, I guess, because he interrupted me to say, "Shut up and talk!"

Then we both took on a startled look realizing what he had said, and cracked up.