Phones

The phone rings. Why? I hate phones! Phones are a bother. If they only brought joyful news it would be ok. But people just want to talk your ear off. They are lonely. Would be so much easier if you were sitting there with them, talking, sipping coffee or tea, WITH them.

Phones are hard in the summer. They stick to your ear with sweat. They cramp up your neck from having to hold the phone with your head to have two hands free.

My kids like to call me. That is a good thing. Sometimes I don't know what to say to them. Sometimes they just say 'hello', and expect me to talk... about anything! My mother calls me. She can talk for hours, about all kinds of things.

I don't get anything done when I am on the phone. Used to be, when I had a corded phone, that I got all kinds of things done while listening. I used to do dishes, vacuum, even put laundry in. Now that I have a cordless phone, I tend to sit to listen. I wonder why that is.