Socnorb11 wrote:That makes me feel better. Good for you!
Thanks.
She's been a stay-at-home mom for 22 years straight, and now all three of her boys are in college. I can tell she's having a rough time adjusting, so I try to keep in touch. The tone of her voice when I asked if she wanted to have lunch was all I needed to hear to make the whole day worth it.
ThatGuy wrote:Anyway, I confess to being a walk-and-talker, but I don't see how it makes me a d-bag. I don't do it to be cool or to look like I'm busy - I only do it when I have to, and most of the time it's when I'm walking to class. I'm not going to remain stationary while I'm talking on my cell phone and risk being late to class (or wherever else I'm going). What the heck is the point of having a cell phone if I can't move around while I'm using it?
I can understand being angry at people who do it not out of necessity but out of habit/the need to look cool, but otherwise I don't see the problem.
I never use my cellphone long or often enough to be a walker-talker, and usually the only time I do it is when I'm too busy for a prolonged conversation.
Which makes me realize something: I typically don't simply call up someone just to chat. If I call someone it has a point and purpose to it. When it's over, I might chat a bit for their benefit, but then I hang up and it's done. Is it bad if I prefer to get an answering machine more than the person 90% of the time?
The pretend I'm texting or calling someone move was a mainstay in my arsenal. That and the IPod/head down move.
My roommate and I actually got into a pretty heated debate one time about certain techniques.
I used to put my phone to my ear when I was walking through campus at Mizzou. There was no one on the other line half the time. That way I could just nod and smile and mouth a silent "hey!" while I kept walking.
This has nothing to do with the thread but during game 4 of last year's World Series I had to be in a meeting and kept calling my son for game updates and some people thought I was an a++hole but I didn't stop. Plus I had a radio earphone in one ear.
dangerous wrote:This has nothing to do with the thread but during game 4 of last year's World Series I had to be in a meeting and kept calling my son for game updates and some people thought I was an a++hole but I didn't stop. Plus I had a radio earphone in one ear.
dangerous wrote:This has nothing to do with the thread but during game 4 of last year's World Series I had to be in a meeting and kept calling my son for game updates and some people thought I was an a++hole but I didn't stop. Plus I had a radio earphone in one ear.
