Chatty, talkative, or gabby people can sometimes become a nuisance or even annoying. There was a little story that I once heard that I would like to share that perfectly illustrates the possible reason why some people like to hear themselves talk. I found it to be both humorous and mostly true.

The Lesson of a Wagon

As I walked on day with my father,

he suddenly asked me:

Besides the songs of the birds,

Do you hear anything else?

Yes, I answered. he noise of a wagon.

Excellent, he said. And it is empty.

Empty? And how do you know,

If we haven’t seen it?

Very easy: because of the noise it makes.

The emptier the wagon is,

The greater the noise it makes.

Since then…when I see someone

Talking too much, bragging of

What they have done, what they have,

And belittling others,

I seem to hear my father’s voice:

THE EMPTIER THE WAGON IS…THE GREATER THE NOISE IT MAKES!

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