I hate it when people share too much information

[alarimer]

I was thinking about this the other day. I know more about my co-workers health conditions than I do my parents'. I wish like hell they would stop telling me things like that. But I am weird though. I can watch an operation on TV but I don't want my friends to tell me about their PMS. And some women, for some reason, seem to feel the need to share their symptoms with me (I am female too yet do not feel the need to share that or hear it from anyone else). Or whatever condition someone might be experiencing. Or how their sex life is. Why is that some people are such sharers? Do they not realize that some of us do not want to hear it? Some things (bodily functions and medical conditions) should be shared only on a need-to-know basis. And most of us do not need to know.


I am not referring to any thread on here by the way. It is about certain conversations I have actually had with people. Or, rather they had with me, with me trying like hell to ignore them.

[Common Sense Party]

1. A couple of my wife's co-workers are always sharing bedroom

details at work. WAY too much info for my wife. She always tries to maneuver out of the room when they go into specifics.

[alarimer]

5. Work is not a good place for that anyway

I had a coworker (well I still do but he is better now) who would make sexual references all the time. Jokes mainly and not necessarily personal but I was still uncomfortable and eventually I had to tell my boss about it. The guy shut up then once he realized he could be in trouble for sexual harassment.

That sort of talk sounds like it is best left for afterhours to me.

[sammythecat]

2. self delete for irrelevancy

[crim son]

3. I am very confessional

but there are times when even I'm shocked, like when somebody wants to speak of the consistency of their bowel movements. My MIL once told me that she wore her dead husband's underwear because they were "absorbent." HOLY GOD. Why on earth would she ever tell me that? The mental image has been with me for fifteen years...

[alarimer]

6. I think some people do not have filters

They say whatever comes into their heads.

I am extremely reticent, so much so that if I were ill, I would only tell my boss the nature of the illness. I would ask that no one else (at work) be notified, except to say that I would be out for an undisclosed illness. I am very easily embarrassed.

[hfojvt]

4. "Some folks tongues are like the clocks that keep on ticking,

not so as to tell you the time, but because something is wrong with their insides." George Eliot "Adam Bede"

Myself, I am curious about people who talk continuously. If you blocked their mouths with duck tape, would their heads explode?

[alarimer]

7. I work with a guy like that

Never shuts up. In fact if he is too quiet, we know something isn't right.