I’ve been trying to plan a date with a girl I really dig for about a week now. We have both had very busy schedules, and I can never ever seem to get ahold of her. I even had plans tonight with her, but when I called to confirm and make a time today, the line was busy. FOR FOUR FUCKING HOURS. After calling on the hour 4 times, I gave up and went out with friends. I had been wanting to go out with her tonight, she was enthusiastic about coming along, but I can never get ahold of people to figure this stuff out.
This rant is at nobody in particular. Maybe someone at her place forgot to hang up the phone or get offline, or maybe something was incredibly urgent that it took 4 hours to deal with. Dammit, she knew I was gonna call, and I couldn’t get through. Now I look like an asshole. She wasn’t picking up her cellphone, and I try not to call that often anyway so I don’t look stalkery for having called 3 times.
Now I have to call her up tomorrow and see if there’s anything we can do this week. If I am lucky, she’ll be free and we can see the fireworks together on Friday, but knowing things as they are, I will get screwed over. I’ll still try though. My favorite holiday spent with a girl I am crazy about, too good to be true. Grrr.
Her phone was probably busy for 4 hours because people kept trying to call her, and then, just as she was about to pick up, they relized they needed to do something and hung up. This happened repeatedly, and you, yourself, were never able to get through. I’m not saying this because I have caller ID and can see, exactly, which of my damn friends do this. Or because I’ve been in the room with them when they made a call, let it ring a couple of times, and then, before the person could pick up, hung up the phone because our waiter came over or we got to our stop or the the TV show came back on or whatever was suddenly more imporant.
The more means we have for communication, the less efficient communication seems to become. People leave emails that go unanswered, so a phone call becomes necessary. Somebody calls a cell phone, doesn’ t get an answer, and gets mad later when the person doesn’t call back. Plans are made for dinner or some other event, and plans are too easily changed up to the last minute via cell phone.
