On 2021-04-16 10:01 a.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 4/16/2021 7:31 AM, Gary wrote:
>
>>
>> The unlimited talk is all my mother's fault. She doesn't like email.
>> Likes to talk each week for a couple of hours so I do that for her.
>>
>
> Good for her.* Email is fine for some stuff but nothing replaces real
> conversation.* I have three friends I talk to weekly, often for a long
> time.* Not as good as face to face but much better than a computer.
>
> My Saturday morning call is to Sue. We worked together and had lunch
> together for 25 years and still have a lot to talk about.* Could be 2
> hours, sometimes more.



Some people love to talk on the phone. My mother did and my son seems to
have inherited that trait from her. I am more like my father. He used
the phone to communicate messages, not for conversations.

My son has bad cell phone reception by his house, only a block from the
lake. He gets much better reception in his car. He often calls me on his
way to work and he can chat the whole way there.

A few years ago I reconnected with an old friend and we became quite
close. He calls almost every day, sometimes two or three times. I also
have a nephew who calls every week or two and talks for an hour or more.
It's nice to hear from them but I am just not used to that.


I will check my cell phone if it rings while I am out. I may or may not
answer, depending on what I am doing. I have to wonder about people I
see walking around in town or in malls with a phone glued to their ear.