Don't Call Me I'll Call You

Do you know people who call you just to call you? Maybe it's just to use their phone or maybe because the person they really wanted to call didn't answer. I have no idea why these people call. When I stupidly answer they always ask "what are you doing"? Well duh, I'm currently talking to you. I was doing something important, or at least important to me until this very moment. If I wasn't doing anything, I would be sleeping or watching television. However your interuption of my activity means I am now talking to you.

And then once you get on the phone, they have nothing to say and expect you to do all the talking. I think they just call to hear my breathing while they go about their own activity. It's like having a body next to them, without the inconvenience of invading their zone of intimacy. I'm serious, this person calls and then sits there silently and every now will say, "so how's it going". I have already told them when I first answered the phone, "it's going okay, I was ______ until you called". So are they even listening?

Sometimes there is even lulls in the conversation where I say "are you even listening to anything I say"? Definitely a waste of a call. I have no idea why I answer the phone. You would think I would take advantage of the caller i.d. and ignore the call. But like a sucker, I always pick up.

I think picking up has a lot to do with my very own boredom. And it's probably the very reason I will continue to pick up whenever this friend of mine calls.

P.S. It's not you Egg--but it is someone that you know!