Day 20 - Favored Means of Communication

Day 20

Part of me wishes it weren't so. I wish I loved to chat on the phone; I once did. Before Mr. L and I started dating, we talked for hours on the phone. If we had nothing to say, then we just sort of sat there, feeling somehow connected. Now, that kind of dead air over the phone gets the inquiry, "did you call for a reason?"

I do like face-to-face conversations with people I know and love. If it is  someone I don't really know,  however, it is like having teeth pulled. I become amazingly brain dead in social situations with people I don't know. I once wasted 20 minutes of my life and countless brain cells discussing the color red with someone who is as big a failure at small talk as I.

So, email and texts are my favored means of communication, especially for the purpose of conveying actual information. I realize that voice inflection and certain nuances are lost in electronic communication, but repetition is kept to a minimum as well as extraneous information. Some of you with whom I communicte through electronic means are picking your chins up off the floor about now, for I am a pro at rambling on and on electronically. Sorry about that bit of hypocrisy. Really, it's just the hem of my hypocritical garment.

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