Quiet

It's odd to me that I'm so quiet when I'm around people I don't know well.  I feel like somebody has stolen my words.

Here's what others say about quiet people, though I don't necessarily endorse these opinions:

They are thinking, "What's up with loud and obnoxious people? Why are they talking?"

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.”  --Benjamin Franklin

I sit among a group of people who I don’t know too well or I am new to and I analyze. I wonder who is more frequently the center of attention, who is always getting picked on or shamed, who speaks in quality over quantity, who has my sense of humor and who doesn’t, who is judging my being quiet, who I might have the most in common with, what my place or role be in this group, etc.

I am quiet in general. I choose my words carefully in the beginning, but once I feel comfortable I open up and end my quietness until someone new shows up. People who can just start up a conversation with a total stranger as if he has spoken to him/her before amaze me. I don’t like that they do that though. You never know if they’re speakin with a quiet person.

And they're annnoyed by the fools in the next cubicle over who keep arguing on about utter nonsense such as which footbowl player scored the most home runs last season, and so on... 

(I don't know if that last person was being funny or not.)