We talk over each others heads.
We talk over each others heads. We talk near each other, around each other, in an attempt to get attention from each other by ignoring each other. We are being fantastic, eccentric or intelligent in their presence in hopes that their ears will perk up when we are around, in hopes that they will be more interested in us than we appear interested in them. All of our efforts to appear fabulously disinterested belie altogether too much interest.