[Kaderin Triste]

I usually only tune actual people out by accident. Like if the conversation is boring, but I catch certain key words in another conversation nearby or a good song comes on the radio. Or I'm working on a project. Or when my mom would drone on and on for over an hour about the latest book she read (usually a Debbie Macomber or some harlequin romance type book). I would mechanically respond with "ah", "mmhmm", and "okay" periodically while listening just enough to catch when the conversation actually got back to...an actual conversation and not a detailed description of the plot of the book including in depth description of characters, which often led to tangents about other books in the series that the character in question was also in.