Introverts. What social interaction takes your battery down to 0% instantly?

Oh, easy. Anywhere where there's loud noise or a lot of noise.

I travel a lot in my work and it often includes staying in a remote city for two or three days,

doing full work days at a customer's facility, and then coming back home.

My survival techniques are hotels.

I find them calming as they're like airports. You've seen one, you've seen most of them.

I got sent to a remote facility, but the customer's liaison guy invites me to their home instead.

I politely decline and I try all of the excuses in the book, but he's not taking no for an answer.

Eventually, he starts to get no for an answer. Eventually,

he starts to get insulted and my boss tells me, we kind of need this deal and asks me to go. After the flight, I get picked up and we do a full day at the facility, then we go to the guy's house. They

have two children who are hyper and think I'm there just to play with them. I try my best to show

happy face, but internally,

my battery has already been dry for a long time. Finally, the kids go somewhere, and I think I have

some time off, but now the guy offers me a beer. Okay, I tell him I've been trying to distance myself

from alcohol, but he still drinks a couple of beers, and becomes annoyingly talkative. At this point, I'm screaming

internally. It's around 9pm, and I see this as a good time to go. It's been a long day. I think I'll

go check my email and stuff and go to sleep, and I head upstairs, which has my room. I hear them

talking. The wife is telling the guy that I might see them as bad hosts if he leaves me alone. The husband, however, wants to drink more beer, so the wife comes up. To my horror, I have absolutely nothing

in common with her. She starts talking about their kids and goes on for over half an hour of

oversharing the details about their life, while my brain has already frozen from the whole situation.

Finally, I get to sleep, and I get woken up over

an hour before my time, as apparently the family has super long breakfasts, where they just

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