the joys of the work lunch

today was the lunch for my team at work. i had many thoughts about this. and fears. i have heard the awkwardness that accompanies these types of get togethers from my roommate, and experienced a few myself over the last few months. but what happened today was not what i expected. instead of awkward silence, and people just pushing their food around, everyone was talking. i instead encountered a different type of terror. the "work tmi". why do people feel the need to share so much about their personal lives. i understand somethings you can share. i get it. you want people to get to know about you. but i don't really need to know all about how about people getting drunk and stuff like that. unnecessary.