How often do you find yourself being used as a sounding board by friends or family?

How often do you find you get used as a sounding board? It seem often people call me up with some unimportant matter like what is on TV they can’t find their guide, have I seen so and so, do I know if it is suppose to rain, etc. The conversation quickly descend into a grip fest or vent sessions where I get to here how the dry cleaner messed up their shirt, or some Boorish driver cut them off, or how bad and selfish their man has been to them, and such. It is like the whole reason of the call or to stop me on my way is just to be heard as if somehow they have to make the case to me in order to be right, or think they are. Do you find that happens to you often?