Anonymous:
I get where you're coming from, but sometimes there's a lot to be said for not having to make conversation for whatever proportion of 9 hours a day. I work 10 hours a day with people who can be incessant chatterboxes when the mood takes them and sometimes I just wish they'd shut the fuck up. Unfortunately I can't tell them that because I have to continue to work alongside them.

I definitely have a couple people in my office who can go on and on when I’m trying to work, but they are in a different area of the office.  I guess I was just thinking how odd it is to sit in stone silence all day when other people are right there.