You can call all you want, but there's no one home

[apple_pathways]

First things first: have you voted in my Princess Poll yet? If you haven't, you should: it's about princesses.

And now, in lieu of any actual content, I have another poll: about phone behavior.



I, personally, hate talking on the phone, and consider it a necessary evil for keeping in touch with long distance friends, making plans, and maintaining relationships. I wouldn't tell any of my RL friends this (though they've probably suspected it...) but often, when I'm talking on the phone with people, I am mentally calculating how long the conversation has to last before I can make my excuses and end it.

It's not that I don't like people, or having conversations: I'm just as much of a chatterbox in person as I am online. I just...I don't know. When you're on the phone, you have to sit still and pay attention and not do anything else. It's hard.

My bestie LOVES to talk on the phone. We'll have been talking for a good 45 minutes and have reached that point where the conversation has dried up and we're both just making random observations about things in the rooms we're in. I'll say, "Well, I'm gonna go now..." and she'll say, "Awww, really?" YES I CANNOT HAVE THIS BORING STILTED CONVERSATION ANY LONGER!

Really, when you consider how hermit-like and curmudgeonly I am, I'm lucky to have any friends at all. (I really am! When I sit down and think about it, there really are a lot of annoying personality quirks my friends deal with rather well...)

So, in order to prove whether I am or am not a freak, I have created a poll. I suspect the results will be slightly skewed, since we're Internet People, but nevertheless...
[Poll #1676398]


So, did everyone survive the latest Snowpocalypse? I stayed home from work, which is good and bad: good because YEAH SNOW DAY, and bad because no work = no pay.

Comments

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I find myself compelled to qualify nearly every answer I gave. Number two especially, since you didn't specify personal calls. There's at least one person I have to call pretty much daily at work. And since I've been calling her near-daily for a couple of years now, she's actually the only person I do the quick catch-up chat with. I keep up with pretty much everyone else either in person or online. But, for the purposes of this survey I also wasn't counting my parents, who I call at least a couple of times a week, and sometimes when I'm bored running errands. They break all of my rules of hating phone calls, but I think that's because I don't really communicate with them much otherwise... Other than the random emails my mom sends me about things like the White Stripes breaking up and what she made for dinner. (Omg I am such a hopeless dork...)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I find myself compelled to qualify nearly every answer I gave. Number two especially, since you didn't specify personal calls.

You know what, this is actually why I love you. After I specified 'personal/social calls only' on the one question, I nearly went back to add a note at the beginning of the poll, but I thought, "Amy, really, no one else is as picky about these things as you are." In short: YOU WIN EVERYTHING!

My parents are the people I enjoy calling the least (well, besides my brother...); that's one of the major upsides of living with them.

My mother just sends me those alarmist email forwards about how you shouldn't take calls from area code 777 or whatever or they'll charge you a million dollars and steal your kidneys. Or something. It's sweet that you like talking to your parents so much! :D