Spent a good long time this morning talking on my cell phone. To nobody. I picked this habit up when I first got my cell phone, back in, what was it, 2001? Naw, 2002. Spring. I'm uncommonly good at it. I've fooled the best of them. It's something I can do anytime, anywhere, and it's wildly entertaining.
Vicki called my cell and we talked for awhile, but her phone was going to cut out, so we hung up. I wasn't done talking, though, so I just continued to hold a conversation. Not with her, it was with someone else. Some friend I had spoken to recently, I'm not sure who exactly.
Another funny part of the whole thing is that I can't hang them up- not without properly saying goodbye. After I talked to the person for awhile on the way to work, I went to Starbucks, continued to talk to them (there was even a time when I had to set them down on the counter and we got accidentally disconnected- had to call them back, sigh) until I got into my car. I decided I was done with the call, but I couldn't just set the phone down. I had to say, "Alright, well, I should go, I'm going to work now, and I'm low on minutes anyway- no, I'll- hey!! I call you! I'll call you tonight, okay? HAHAHAH!!! No!! HA! Shut up. Yeah, I'll call you tonight on my way home, free minutes are the highlight of my life. Alright, bye, pookie." I tried to just set the phone down, but I felt so bad, I had to say goodbye. What if they thought I was being rude?
I'm really obsessed with making it sound real. I say random words sometimes:
"Wait, why did he say that? Ducks? Are you sure he said ducks?"
to spice up the conversation, but for the most part we're discussing a subject which could easily be a conversation with anyone. I sometimes talk about things that are going on in my life- this is a good challenge because it gives me the chance to evaluate how differently I would approach certain subject with different people- and how I think they would react. And I'm obsessed with the authentic laugh (easy enough when I think about how I'm talking to a FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION).
The BEST PART of this is that it doesn't cost me any minutes! It's more entertaining than talking to some people, and it's totally free. The only cost is possible oil buildup on the side of my face from the phone pressing up against it. But hey, that's what they make earbuds for. Thank god for earbuds.
