I hate call waiting...
...I never had it until a year or so ago and now I wish I hadn't gotten it. I got it because a bunch of my friends said that they hated getting busy signals. Now they get insulted when I put them on hold to answer the other line. I can't seem to do anything right.
When I didn't have it, I didn't know when someone was calling me so I was perfectly happy to chat away. Now, I can't stand not knowing who it is that's causing that tone to go off in my ear. I MUST know so I say, "Could you hold on for a moment...there might be someone nicer than you on the other line."
Monday mornings I get a phone call every 5 minutes from 9-12 and I can't get a thing accomplished because I have to keep on saying, "Hello..." to find out if the person is calling me for something important or just to chat and I hate chatting. There are about 3 people on this planet that I don't mind chatting with and the rest are just annoying. After you tell me what you called me for, I'm ready to hang up.
When I had my old phone, it had a great conversation limiting tool. It would die out after 15 minutes. Now I have a new phone and it works for a long, long time. Of course, if I take it to bed like I did last night, it doesn't work in the morning so today, I'm unable to talk to anyone for any length of time and that's bringing back memories of my old phone.
How did people get by without a phone a hundred and fifty years ago?Somehow, civilized mankind made it through 5,000 years without phones yet we can't seem to get through a morning without calling somebody. I REFUSE to get a cellphone, even if I had the money for one. I don't like phones, why would I pay for an extra one that would follow me around my life? I don't understand people who keep a phone glued to their heads, never once enjoying the peace and quiet of a nice drive down the highway or the quiet aisles of the grocery store. I had one for a job once, so you would literally have to pay me to carry a phone.
My phone has rung so many times this morning that I haven't even been able to write this short post without speaking to at least 6 people and I think it was more than 6. The thing that annoys me even more is that now I have to call people that will keep me out of jail. I haven't had a chance to make the important calls that I need to make and I'm already totally sick of talking on the phone. Why I pay to keep it on is beyond me, that and the television evoke nothing but annoyance in my life.
Springsteen was right when he wrote the song 67 Channels and Nothing's On (or was it 57? Well, now there's 167). When I think of how much money I spend to keep the television and phone on it makes me ill. When I do sit down and turn on the TV, I go through all of the channels and curse the fact that there is NOTHING worth watching. Like a person who buys lottery tickets, I keep thinking that this will be the ONE time that I'll get lucky and find something interesting to watch. Most of the stuff on TV is stupid and even if it doesn't offend me by it's content, I'm offended by the fact that someone thinks that I'm stupid enough to laugh at the lame jokes and double entendres that they call entertainment nowadays.
If by some stroke of luck I find something that I can watch for any length of time, the commericals offend me. I don't understand how they can take an entire television show and find the one 4 second sound bite that has a curse word in it and use that for the commercial. There's not one person on this planet who can convince me that they aren't trying, in one other way, to lower the standards of our children and society in general. I may use some pretty foul language on this blog, but you'd have to go out of your way to get to it and I'm pretty sure that only adults would read past the first two sentences. It doesn't just pop up in your living room as you're innocently watching a rerun of Little House on the Prairie.
OK, now the phone has rung so many times that my morning is pretty much shot and I have to accomplish something today so I have to go. I'll be back later as long as I can stay off the telephone and assuming that there isn't anything on television.
See ya,
Meg
...I never had it until a year or so ago and now I wish I hadn't gotten it. I got it because a bunch of my friends said that they hated getting busy signals. Now they get insulted when I put them on hold to answer the other line. I can't seem to do anything right.
When I didn't have it, I didn't know when someone was calling me so I was perfectly happy to chat away. Now, I can't stand not knowing who it is that's causing that tone to go off in my ear. I MUST know so I say, "Could you hold on for a moment...there might be someone nicer than you on the other line."
Monday mornings I get a phone call every 5 minutes from 9-12 and I can't get a thing accomplished because I have to keep on saying, "Hello..." to find out if the person is calling me for something important or just to chat and I hate chatting. There are about 3 people on this planet that I don't mind chatting with and the rest are just annoying. After you tell me what you called me for, I'm ready to hang up.
When I had my old phone, it had a great conversation limiting tool. It would die out after 15 minutes. Now I have a new phone and it works for a long, long time. Of course, if I take it to bed like I did last night, it doesn't work in the morning so today, I'm unable to talk to anyone for any length of time and that's bringing back memories of my old phone.
How did people get by without a phone a hundred and fifty years ago?Somehow, civilized mankind made it through 5,000 years without phones yet we can't seem to get through a morning without calling somebody. I REFUSE to get a cellphone, even if I had the money for one. I don't like phones, why would I pay for an extra one that would follow me around my life? I don't understand people who keep a phone glued to their heads, never once enjoying the peace and quiet of a nice drive down the highway or the quiet aisles of the grocery store. I had one for a job once, so you would literally have to pay me to carry a phone.
My phone has rung so many times this morning that I haven't even been able to write this short post without speaking to at least 6 people and I think it was more than 6. The thing that annoys me even more is that now I have to call people that will keep me out of jail. I haven't had a chance to make the important calls that I need to make and I'm already totally sick of talking on the phone. Why I pay to keep it on is beyond me, that and the television evoke nothing but annoyance in my life.
Springsteen was right when he wrote the song 67 Channels and Nothing's On (or was it 57? Well, now there's 167). When I think of how much money I spend to keep the television and phone on it makes me ill. When I do sit down and turn on the TV, I go through all of the channels and curse the fact that there is NOTHING worth watching. Like a person who buys lottery tickets, I keep thinking that this will be the ONE time that I'll get lucky and find something interesting to watch. Most of the stuff on TV is stupid and even if it doesn't offend me by it's content, I'm offended by the fact that someone thinks that I'm stupid enough to laugh at the lame jokes and double entendres that they call entertainment nowadays.
If by some stroke of luck I find something that I can watch for any length of time, the commericals offend me. I don't understand how they can take an entire television show and find the one 4 second sound bite that has a curse word in it and use that for the commercial. There's not one person on this planet who can convince me that they aren't trying, in one other way, to lower the standards of our children and society in general. I may use some pretty foul language on this blog, but you'd have to go out of your way to get to it and I'm pretty sure that only adults would read past the first two sentences. It doesn't just pop up in your living room as you're innocently watching a rerun of Little House on the Prairie.
OK, now the phone has rung so many times that my morning is pretty much shot and I have to accomplish something today so I have to go. I'll be back later as long as I can stay off the telephone and assuming that there isn't anything on television.
See ya,
Meg
posted by Meg Kelso | 9:33 AM
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