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Why do people feel the need to ask you the same question several times consecutively in a short period? Say, three times in the space of a minute, when I had clearly heard and clearly answered the first two times, which is what just happened to me.

Does anyone else seem to get this a lot?

I can't understand what's with that.

I can't understand why people need to ask again several times when you've answered each time already, or why they need to turn simple, polite greetings into a complex ordeal.

I guess it is obviously a test, with someone wanting to have a battle of wits in social skills.

My father does this. I think it's because he didn't get the answer he wanted the first time, so he keeps trying.

I ask the same question over and over sometimes when I'm with my boyfriend. It's basically variations on "Do you like me?" This irritates him but he does the same thing.

My son does this to me. It's because his attention is immediately distracted and he's not paying attention to my answer(s).

My brother will ask/say the same thing several times in a conversation but on the 3rd or 4th time i will usually point it out and if he dose it again i will make a point of pointing it out.

The question in my case was someone simply asking "How's things?", however that question was asked three times in a minute, and that's what I did the third time, I pointed it out, which caused a little bit of a conflict. What's concerning is that it kind of gave away to this person how "off" my social skills and conversation skills were. Maybe they were just twisting things round and trying to save face to try to appear as the more well adjusted, hale and hearty person, because I just thought the repeated asking was quite stupid, stupid enough for me to want to query the style in which people sometimes like to interact with me.

There's someone who does this to me and it completely baffles me. She asks me a question and I say "I don't know". She blinks, not breaking her gaze, and asks again."Dunno". Again. I look up, serious, "Right....I still don't know."

I think it's because she is waiting for a particular answer like she's relying on some algorithm in her head. She can't go on until she's gotten the input she seeks.