If I don’t call my parents tomorrow, I can make it four and a half days that I’ve not talked to anyone or heard more than a muffled human voice other than my own. I’m thinking I’ll do that just to have a definite answer.
There’s this blind man who goes to my church and he hates me. Well, maybe not me, but he hates the organ and I am the organist. He will say to the pastor as he leaves the church, “Why does it have to be so loud?” or “It blares.” However, when I play something softly beautiful he never says, “That was really pretty.”
So I never speak to him because he never knows I am nearby. What would I say to him? “Hi, I’m the organist, and I hear you despise my life’s work and freely say so.”
Geez, I’m not a nice person at all.
Oh my God! I didn’t even answer the question right! Because I didn’t really read it!
I’m sorry.
Please ignore me in the future.
I’m afraid, not very long. It seems I am alot like down by law’s girlfriend. I LOVE to talk and poor **Hal ** has to put up with it. Really, I’m not kidding…I never shut up. I even tell him that I won’t talk to him and he just laughs and says “I give it 5 minutes”…and he’s always right :rolleyes:
About two weeks maybe twenty years ago
It was a really bad situation.
10 months. The first 9 months and bit over I was in a coma, and it took close to a month after I came out of it for my speech to return.
One of my oddest professors in college strongly advocated taking a 10-12 day break from speaking every few months. He claimed that, after the tough first three days, thoughts start to crystallize in your head and take on a clarity to which constant interaction runs counterintuitive. Anyway, I have school and a job, so it’s not that easy to come up with a 2-week block to not speak… but he was one of the smartest individuals I’ve ever come across, so I really want to take his advice and try it…
The longest for me has been 4 or 5 days.
That’d be a four day solo canoe trip, shortly before BabyFantsyPants was born.
Although I did have same choice words for the snapping turtle that got too close while I was skinny dipping.
My work schedule gives me every other week off, and, being a hermit, I’m positive there have been multiple times I’ve gone a whole week without speaking to another soul.