I friend, you friend, he she and it friends. We friend, you friend, they friend. It's the verb to friend.
We were talking the other day. "It's such a me thing." I said. You see it in traffic. People talking on cell phones and ignoring others around them. The in your face deal with my great big vehicle, but don't touch it, and get out of my way,...
The other day I was at the grocery store, and this guy was having an argument with someone on his cell phone. At first it kind of freaked me out as it did the produce manager. As my shopping went along I couldn't seem to get away from this guy. It started in the produce section and then we went through the meat department, all through the store and on to the checkout. I only heard his side of the argument. It had me wanting to know the other person's point of view. I wanted to say, "Excuse me, do you mind if I talk to him and get his side of the story?"
"I guess I could hole up." I said. I guess my blog is about self-promotion even though I'm not really telling anyone who I am. I just want to express myself,... "But still." he said. I guess he's right. "It's the thing that always bothered me about artists and musicians." I said. "It's this constant self-promotion that I find distasteful." Come to my show,.. buy my CD. Get into ME!
But don't get too close...
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My thought is - Cellphones are creating a void in civil society. Take the grocery store - people used to talk to each other, now lots of them circulate through the isles talking to somebody that's not there (well, technically the person exists, just not in the grocery store. We used to medicate people for this). Then there's the people that replace their shopping lists with phones "What else do you need?" -- or the ones that can no longer make independent decisions, "The toilet paper in the pink package or the blue package? The pink package is on sale. No, it's one-ply. What yellow package? I don't see a yellow package."
If it's true that cell phones cause cancer then in my grumpy, just woke up, 6:30 am opinion it is evidence that Darwin's theory of natural selection exists even now that we have arrived at the age of technology.
I have a cell phone, but people rarely call me. I even forgot to bring it with me this morning.
I don't like the verb "to friend". I think it dilutes the meaning of "friend".
I really like Webster's definition (there are several), "a favored companion".
I don't have many of those, and I rarely see most of them.
Friend is a noun. Person place or thing. I don't like making verbs out of nouns either.
Is it ok if I noun you Diane? :)
I want to be on your verbs list...
WP, I don't want people calling me all the time, like when I'm skiing. I was skiing with this guy the other day and he had to stop to take a phone call.
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