05-14-2013, 09:45 PM
Most people are scatterbrained as it is. I like people, I just don't like phones and computers as much. I like some people, anyway. And when I like someone, I want them to talk to me; I don't want to listen to them talk to somebody else. Especially when you don't know when it's going to happen. My concentration is troubled too. So it becomes a real problem when you have to keep pausing a conversation while somebody is having one with someone that isn't even there.
When I answer my door, and the person standing there says, "Hold on", all of the sudden I'm on hold. It feels awkward to be put on hold in person. Or when someone invites me to their house, and they tell me to pull up a chair so I can sit and watch them talk to somebody on Skype.
I don't say everyone's addicted. But in small towns like where I am, most people are. Because there isn't much else to do. There are other things to do; but it's too easy to be seen as weird around here. I'm seen as a suspicious and eccentric character because I like to go on long walks. Some of the other things I do make it hard to go in public here. So I'm here typing on the computer too.
Here or anywhere else in the world, it's hard for lots of people to concentrate. I find people more interesting one on one, with no distractions. Especially if we're alone. I just figure I must bore them to death, so they have to talk to somebody else too just to stand being around me. When I like someone, I can put up with them being boring sometimes; and I never talk on the phone or go online when I have company, unless they ask me to. And they usually do.
And I enjoy putting up with that bored expression on Sandra's face.
When I answer my door, and the person standing there says, "Hold on", all of the sudden I'm on hold. It feels awkward to be put on hold in person. Or when someone invites me to their house, and they tell me to pull up a chair so I can sit and watch them talk to somebody on Skype.
I don't say everyone's addicted. But in small towns like where I am, most people are. Because there isn't much else to do. There are other things to do; but it's too easy to be seen as weird around here. I'm seen as a suspicious and eccentric character because I like to go on long walks. Some of the other things I do make it hard to go in public here. So I'm here typing on the computer too.
Here or anywhere else in the world, it's hard for lots of people to concentrate. I find people more interesting one on one, with no distractions. Especially if we're alone. I just figure I must bore them to death, so they have to talk to somebody else too just to stand being around me. When I like someone, I can put up with them being boring sometimes; and I never talk on the phone or go online when I have company, unless they ask me to. And they usually do.
And I enjoy putting up with that bored expression on Sandra's face.