Personally, I love it when people are blunt, don't repeat themselves, and, most importantly, don't bog down what they're trying to say with a plethora of absolutely useless information. Like so...
"I went to the mall the other day, the one of on such and such street, not the one on so and so street, and I went to Macy's to get a pair of boots, but they didn't have the ones I wanted in my size so I went over to Footlocker. Footlocker didn't have the right style, so I headed back to Macy's and found a different pair, and they fit! But my credit card was declined because I forgot to pay them last week, so I had to run over to the bank and do that and when I got back they had sold the last pair of my boots! So I went back to Footlocker, and lo and behold, they had the first pair I wanted in the right size! I just missed them when I looked the first time! Aren't they just the prettiest things!?"
You know what I want to hear?
"I got new boots today. Do you like them?"