LOL! Had an ex who would get smoked up, then he wouldn't SHUT UP. He'd go on and on and on and on and on repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating the same FREEKIN THING over and over and over and over and over again. When my eyes would glaze over he'd start poking me and telling me "listen . . . this is important!"
Finally I'd have to play on the paranoia and tell him, "Roger, I love you but if you don't shut up and leave me alone I'm going to have to kill you."
Then I'd give him some paints and a pad of paper and tell him to go paint what he wanted to tell me . . .