My sister-in-law called yesterday.  She had some bad news about her job and wanted to let me know that they are coming for a visit at the end of October.  Then she went on and on and on about her job!  She only calls about 3 times a year so I didn't want to cut her off but I didn't have an hour and forty-five minutes to spare.  I barely got a word in edgewise.  Why don't people realize when they are monopolizing conversations?  I may have a few cute stories about the students at school but I don't like to bore people with details.  When I was a legal secretary, I never thought to bore people with great details about my job.  My brother that I talk about all the time talks about the same things over and over and monopolizes conversations too.  I feel like a victim sometimes.  And he turns the music on and then starts talking.  I can't process all of that noise.  I stay composed most of the time but after he talked about his new hair piece a hundred times, I kind of cut him short and said that "yeah, it looks nice".  He said I chopped his head off.  My "best friend" was doing the same thing.  If I heard one more word about her boyfriend or her birthday, I was going to scream.  So now do you know why I post so much?