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It seems that most of the interesting women I meet on the Internet hate using the telephone.

Some loathe the telephone but tolerate it to the point of accepting calls on it, and I end up hearing how they still hate it later on the Internet. Others refuse to use the phone under any circumstances.

Of course, the remainder of interesting women on the Internet love using the telephone, and talk to net-people on it all the time.

I think it's because when you're interesting, everyone wants to talk to you, and you either get sick of it very quickly, or you learn to love it.

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*sticks tongoue out*

You callin' me interesting?

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[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Well, you're the rare gem that can hold a phone conversation when it's necessary, or expected. It sounds more like an annoyance than, for example, a phobia. If your fear of phones were the worst, I wouldn't have your number.

It's incredible how many women online think of the phone as if Satan is going to reach out of the mouthpiece and pull them by the tongue into Hell.

The only male I've ever known with such a hang-up (per se) is my high school history teacher, who was driven insane by growing up in a house with a shared phone line, and special rings determining who should pick up. Of course, there are probably more, but the male tendency is to repress our weaknesses. It'd be pretty easy; screening calls, relying on pagers, excuses, and so forth. Kind of like how you hide illiteracy.

I'd probably do well to hide my lack of car in such a way.