Cellphonespeak overheard at the supermareket
"hi"
"OH REALLY?"
"OH REALLY, OH REALLY, OH REALLY..."
"I MEAN: OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE..."
"NEED I SAY MORE?"
"OH PLEASE..."
"OKAY, THEN...OKAY..."
"WHATEVER..."
"OH REALLY..."
"OKAY THEN...WHATEVER..."
"WHATEVER..."
"bye"
posted by chuck @ 5:07 PM
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8 Comments:
As bad as that conversation might seem, it gives me hope.
There's not a single "like" to be found!
'Like...oh please! There's gotta be hope. Like hope is a good thing...right?'
Thanks, John.
I enjoy keeping up with your weblog. Your students are fortunate to have you as their teacher.
Ideas, energy, the ability to articulate and communicate: wow!
Indeed, there is hope!
Hmm. I wonder what Freud would have said about this...
William:
Freud said he was "speechless" when he read my post...but you know Freud- always playing to an audience: his 'superego' probably got the best of him.
Hi Chuck: very Pinteresque. As a matter of fact Pinter has just written (or overheard?) a cell-phone "conversation" very similar to this one and acted it out during a recent TV interview on the BBC. The conversation's subject was "How are you?".
I have resisted getting one of those ubiquitous consumerist excrescences, promoters of verbal diarrhea, destroyers of blessed silence. But they are useful if you're stuck in a train in a tunnel or on top of a mountain, I suppose.
Isn't it great that we're constantly connected so we can carry on important conversations like that 24/7?
Patry-
Hypocrite am I...I will probably go out and buy a cellphone one of these days.
My parents chose not to buy a TV until 1958...now that was taking "reverse snobbery" too far.
After all, it deprived me of much ECE (early childhood education): I missed most of Howdy Doody, Saturday cartoons... and much more, I am sure.
This is like...weird...Chuck. I mean I have SO heard this exact conversation like a THOUSAND times.
LOL
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