Darlin, please don't

Oh lie to me, lie to me,
forgiveness will be yours.
Well treat me wrong, abuse me so,
I shan't even the score.
I know you might just cheat on me,
please keep it quiet so,
I'll be alright if it's not with
anyone I know.
Steal from me, but not too much
and you can even gloat,
But darling please, I'm begging you,
Don't take the remote.

Don't ask, It'll be easier for everyone. :-)

So, on a topic completely unrelated to the previous paragraph, I'm to the point, at my work, where I just don't care about anything anymore. It's a dangerous point, because my filter that usually weeds out sharp comments and things I want to say but maybe shouldn't, isn't working too well right now. Maybe that's a good thing. I have no problem pointing out things anymore, even things as petty as not replacing a fax cartridge for no reason. I have a feeling something is going to happen pretty soon in this area, whether it's me just blowing up one day or I let loose in a meeting sometime soon. Either way, something has to change soon.
I'm amazed at the lack of observation that people display. People are just so unaware of anything that it's scary, for example: On my trip last weekend, we were driving back in the bus, and in the middle of a long long ride, one of the guys up front suggested that we all share about ourselves, one by one, on the mic. So the first guy gets up, the one who arranged the trip (cause he's a travel agent) and proceeds to take up the next 50 minutes with his whole freakin life story. No offense, I don't mind hearing about you, but not for that long, and not when we're expecting 10 minutes. Not only is it boring and I couldn't even hear half of it, but when he goes on for that long, he's now taking up time from everyone else, but he never thought of that, and because we're all christians on the bus, no one went up and cut him off.
The guy I was rooming with on the trip, he asked about me during breakfast one morning. He wanted to know how I got to where I got, so I started giving him the kind of short version. Halfway into it, I mention California, and he jumps in and starts telling me about his daughter and how she wants to move to California, but her boyfriend is upset cause he doesn't want her to leave, and this guy talking to me now is telling me about her boyfriend and the history there, completely forgetting my story. Needless to say, breakfast ended with him talking and I never got past the halfway point with my story.
These are just two examples of how people can be so oblivious and unaware, and they just happen to be two christians. I, being a christian myself, am not trying to bash christians, just this trait so many people seem to have. But in both stories, I feel like each guy that just talked and talked have something in common with each other and with the human race: they just wanted someone to listen. The need to open up and share and to have someone listen is so strong in people. It's amazing how much people suppress that desire to talk out of fear of something. Why do you think blogs are so popular? Even therapists, most of the time, they just sit and listen to you, and they get paid for it. People just want to share themselves, and they so long for someone to listen. And I myself, don't mind if they talk to me, I'll listen for hours, as long as they don't take the remote.