Pick Up The Damn Phone

Back when long-distance calls were expensive, the phone company ran TV ads: “Reach Out and Touch Someone.” Now, long distance doesn’t cost extra, the phone company is gone, and there’s almost no more TV. So what the hell is your excuse?

It has been ages since I last talked to one of my best friends from college. Our call was amazing and proved to be the second-best thing that happened to me that day, after seeing my wife at the breakfast table.

We compared notes and discovered that texts have largely replaced conversations, at least among our children and grandchildren. And emails for the older demographic.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. I have lived a life virtually without regret and I don’t plan to add any now… like regretting that I didn’t stay in better touch with those who shaped my life for the better, no matter where they live.

It is already too late for some…

Comments

[Robert E. Malchman]

My 16-year-old son spends hours a day on the "phone" (computer-connected voice) with his friends playing multi-player video games, so youth are not relying solely on texts.

[Clark Smith]

IMHO, unbidden real time dialogue without prior arrangement and consent was never a good idea and still isn't. Text ahead, for Pete's sake.