I’m not a fast thinker. And when you add in some sleep depravation for good measure, a fast talker can be faced with this:

Or this:

I just find it really hard to keep up and to process what is being said so I can give a thoughtful reply.

I just had a builder here giving some quotes and ideas for our renovations and I seriously couldn’t keep up. I hope I gave him all the info he needed and that it was correct, otherwise we could be looking at a very different set of plans…