I'll tell you something else I am: relatively quiet.
Must be a thousand times in my life noisy people have told me I'm quiet. Happened just today.
Super-loud, coarse, fat woman was engaging in bland smalltalk with other chatty person in my work area, across the room from me. Went on for a good 15 minutes. Weather, food, dogs. Their lawns maybe. Went on and on. I just kinda tuned it out and kept working away.
Finally super-loud coarse woman blurts out, "HI STEVE!" at ten billion decibels.
"Hi," I said pleasantly.
"YOU'RE QUIET!!" she sez at 10 billion decibels.
It's an interesting phenomenon. I have been told this many, many times and it is clear what the person wants. They imagine being called quiet is a negative thing that will trigger defensiveness. They want me to prove them wrong by forcing some blather. They want noise and the content is not important. Noise for the sake of noise.
"Yup," I say pleasantly.
I suppose I could say what I'm thinking. Something along the lines of, "It would be so cool if you would follow my example and put a sock in it, like, frequently."
But I'm too damn pleasant.
