I have left my mobile phone at work all weekend, so if any of you have been trying to get in touch, I have not been ignoring you delberately. Sometime, I do ignore you deliberately - when your demands on my time are unreasonable, or if you have sent my dull and unimaginative text messages, or if I do not like you. All of these things may have been true this weekend, but on this occasion, they are not the reason I have not replied.
It is strangely liberating being without a phone. It makes you reflect on the number of times you text people out of reflex or boredom. I feel like it is the 1980s again - you know - back in the days when we made arrangements. When you had to plan your meetings in advance. Before everything in the world seemed to be arranged at short notice.
What are U doin?
Just chillin. You?
Me too. Bored!
Me2. Pub?
Yeah.
Chilling, incidentally, is not a real word. It is a silly word, which is designed to give the impression that sitting in front of three back to backk episodes of Columbo whils eating a family sized bag of Doritos is an admirable lifestyle choice. "Chillin" is being lazy. It's time you all got a grip of yourselves and went to the gym.
Or built a bed.
Nightcap
15 years ago
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