I don’t know about everyone, but I’m not much of a phone person.  Occasionally, I’ll spend more than
ten minutes on the phone at a time, if I’m talking to a client, or someone I haven’t talked
to in years.  But most of the time my conversations are limited to ten minutes or so,
simply because I hate it.

A few months ago, I got back in touch with the girl who has been my best friend since junior
high, we had lost touch for about a year, and I think I remember why…

I mentioned about her on my Things I’ve learned from FaceBook post, about how she’s starting
to seem like the kind of person I wouldn’t care to hang out with, which is true some of the
time.  And maybe I’m shallow, yeah, I probably am, but it’s the way she dresses and such
that leads me to believe that.  But then I guess everybody has his/her own style and you
shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, but then when you best friend is diet pills without a prescription starting to dress like
the same people she used to make fun of, it’s a different story… Anyway, I digress…

Back to the matter at hand… Why we lost touch in the first place…

My friend is a talker, street value of cialis a very long-winded talker, and her job requires her to spend a lot of
time in her car, by herself, driving between work sites…  Which in her book, means that she
has lots of time to talk on her cell phone.  And since she I stupidly told her realized that we
have the same cell phone carrier, that we have free mobile to mobile with each other…

An hour and a half (Yeah, my cell phone keeps track of it and makes me aware of how much time I
spend on it… Stupid thing)…  That’s how long she talked today alone!  She talked while she drove
home from work, she talked while she stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up a few things, she even talked
while she picked up her littlest one at the babysitter…  I was starting to feel like I was being
held hostage!

To me that’s just not proper cell phone etiquette, I think it’s rude to talk while you check out at stores,
and especially at the babysitter’s house, when she was trying to keep up the conversation with two people at once!

But for me, that’s an extremely long phone call even sitting at home, just trying to work… Which was hard
because she doesn’t require that I more than mumble my agreement occasionally…

How can she do it all the time?
And how bad am I for not answering the phone on days that I’m extremely busy?

I do believe this is why we lost touch in the first place, because I stopped answering the phone when she called
because I didn’t have all day to talk… And then I would dread the hours it would take when I would
finally call her back, that I simple kept putting off calling… For a year or so…

How do you deal with overly chatty friends when you just don’t have the time for it?

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