Ditto! That's pretty much why I stopped going to Guild meetings; i.e, rude, non-stop talkers. There were a couple, in particular, who could not be reined in despite using most of the techniques suggested here. If anything, it made it worse. For example, one woman liked to "hold court" with all her buddies and, if you stopped the meeting to ask them to stop, the Queen just talked louder so everyone could hang on her every word. I felt sorry especially for those who would be showing their hard work, only to have to holler over the rude members. Such a shame.[/quote]
A person like that usually NEEDS attention for one reason or another. I would have stopped the meeting and not said one word. It may take some min. for them to know all eyes are on them... when they stoppped chatting simply say thank you.. resume meeting, if it happened again do the same thing. the chatting lady may want to talk but soon her friends would probably not like the meeting stopped with all eyes on them... words unspoken mean a chatter cannot justifie.. IF you say something to her she can be the whipped puppy. By not saying she cannot justifie her actions. Am I making sense?