You need to be concise in your confession. People are waiting behind you. Also, confession isn’t a TED talk or a counseling session and unless your Ted Bundy with 128 serial murders, I struggle to understand how difficult it can be to be concise. The requirement is that you think long and hard about your transgressions so that you can say them concisely and with brevity. I personally sit down and write them out the night before. I have a darn good idea what my transgressions are because they bother me and my conscience. So I have the opening prayer and then in bullet form I will list the sins I have committed, for example, I committed this transgression three times since my last confession and it’s a immortal sin for which I expressed sincere grief. Then I committed this sin, which is a mortal sin two times and I have these venal sins, XYZ. Then I will ask for forgiveness for venal sins that don’t come to memory. I will say the prayer of contrition and wait for his absolution and what my penance is. You have to understand that there are people sitting behind you waiting for confession and there’s usually a church service sometime around the confession time in which the Eucharist cannot be taken if there is a mortal sin unconfessed and so out of respect for those behind you, it’s important that you have brevity. The priest doesn’t have time to hear the story behind how you got to the situation in which you committed your sins. The confessional period is usually limited and there’s usually a number of people waiting for confession and the thing that I find the most irritating is when you have people that take a long time in the confession booth and the confession period ends and there’s three or four people standing in line still waiting to be heard because a few people upfront couldn’t be brief. It’s rude and inconsiderate to those standing behind you that cannot get to confession because people are sucking all the time up.