Do you ever....
Do you ever look over and see that someone has the same cell phone as you and have an overwhelming urge to point this out?
"Hey, we have the same phone."
You gesture, then dig around in your purse to display said phone as evidence.
"Cool, huh."
Pause with some more gesturing.
"Well, not the phone, Samsung makes the shittiest phones...I mean I can hardly get a signal, and I'm always hitting random buttons. Yeah. So. But it's cool we have the same phone and all."
Then you realize how badly the conversation could go, having thought through all the gesturing and lame comments and don't say anything at all.
Instead you kind of end up looking a little silly for staring at the guy's phone.
Then you realize he might be thinking you were staring at him.
But he's not that cute, so you casually glance away and think to yourself "whew, that was a close one...."
"Hey, we have the same phone."
You gesture, then dig around in your purse to display said phone as evidence.
"Cool, huh."
Pause with some more gesturing.
"Well, not the phone, Samsung makes the shittiest phones...I mean I can hardly get a signal, and I'm always hitting random buttons. Yeah. So. But it's cool we have the same phone and all."
Then you realize how badly the conversation could go, having thought through all the gesturing and lame comments and don't say anything at all.
Instead you kind of end up looking a little silly for staring at the guy's phone.
Then you realize he might be thinking you were staring at him.
But he's not that cute, so you casually glance away and think to yourself "whew, that was a close one...."
posted by ldbug at Wednesday, April 04, 2007
15 Comments:
LOL! I guess as long as he doesn't have the same purse that you're okay.
That’s funny! Reminds me of an old study by (deep breath) the University of Liverpool Center for Social Evolution to the effect that guys use mobile phones the way peacocks display their feathers to attract mates. “Mobile Phones as Lekking Devices Among Human Males”, apparently.
rock - now that would've been pretty odd..
ballboy - a study? I believe it:-)
Ha! I guess I have no basis for communication with strangers since I don't carry a cell phone. Damn. I'm stuck talking about the weather with them.
You're funny.
jocelyn - Well, on the upside, the weather may be slightly more interesting than cell phone chatter...
LoL! Ldbug, if you ever do come over to London to work don't try this one out. Speaking to a stranger is considered a criminal offence in the UK...unless he's really hot and then it's worth the risk.
I usually curse at the person who is talking on their cell. It's so annoying!
Humm...samsung phones have good screen quality though..signal is fault of your service provider, not the phone...you can always share wallpapers and ringtones through bluetooth with starangers...LOL, i'm going way off tangent here but I love Phones, simply that :)
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Ha ha but no i dont do that, honest i dont! Hubby is always saying hey they got the same phone as me see i said it was a good phone! yeah ok so!
That was a close encounter, huh? I have the inclination to do the same with people reading books. But what the heck, I'm originally from Wyoming, strangers stop and have conversations with you all the time.....
Nobody has the same phone as me. Mine's an antique. Good talking point though. Got chatted up by a woman in a pub 'cause of me phone. Sadly she was around 70 years old.
No, but I've had a similar (and uncomfortable) conversation about my favorite color! *sigh*
tod - yes, if he'd been really hot I would've done it!
mrs - actually he was pretty quite, couldn't really hear him even though he was almost right next to me on the train! We went underground shortly after so he had to hang up anyway..
nothing - yeah, I thought it was the provider too, but I used to have a nokia and I never ever ever had any problems with it. I miss my nokia:-(
indoors - he's braver than I!
gardenia - yeah, I'm with you, at home I would've talked to him, but not in NYC..
4D - the phone was so old a 70yr old shared the same one? :-P
cindy - about your favorite color? I think that is definitely worse than a phone converse!! ;-)
i would have said, nice phone. and put the ball in his court. not so cute sometimes produces the best personalities in my experience.
but yea. awkward conversations are my specialty. :hug:
mel - I still haven't talked to anyone on the train, it's just so awkward!
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