Le troisieme.

My Mom is infamous for time to time giving off the impression that she isn't listening. The most recent situation that occured was during the Superbowl. I stood in our hallway while my Mom was on the couch with the rest of my family watching the Superbowl. While I was standing in said hallway I was trying to have a last conversation before leaving to come back to school after that weekend. I asked her "Do you want me to drive to school or would you like to take me?" I literally stood there for 5 minutes waiting for an answer. I waved my arms and used outrageous body language to try to get her to finally pay attention to me and not the stupid Superbowl commercials. Finally I blurted out a very loud, "MOM" and that got her to finally after 5 long minutes of staring at her from the hallway she answered me with, "Whatever you want." Really?? Really Mom? Those commercials were so important that you made me stand there to wait for a 3 word answer. It made me feel ignored and brushed aside. It was quite obvious that the listening barrier was the stupid Superbowl commercials. (which I don't even understand why if they were that important she just didn't use the DVR and pause the TV...come on.) I can take something from this, that being that a TV commercial which you're supposed to HATE when viewing regular TV can make even the best listener not able to listen properly. So, in other words, limit distractions when speaking.
An preparing and delivering and unorganized speech is a recipe for disaster. The one time I can recall sitting through an unorganized speech was in 12th grade speech class. It was clearly obvious that the student had whipped up the speech during class. Nothing about the speech made it so the audience could retain the information that was being sloppily given. The only advice that I could have given that speaker was to actually prepare for a speech and practice, practice, practice!!!!