People have always taken advantage of my mild-mannered politeness to talk over me and then ask, 'why don't you talk so much?'

[romanstock]

Because you're always talking over the top of me? You don't listen and consider what I say and exchange information, you're just waiting to emit your fake auto response so you can then proceed to talk your non-stop nonsense you're so desperate to say at a completely unnecessary decibel.