Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for May 31, 2013

Same difference! Val sounds like my mother, if I heard that phrase once I heard it ten thousand times.

{eye roll} People these days! They seem to think talking vocally is out and talking digitally (text, instant message, e-mail, etc.) is in!

Technicaly, texting IS the same as saying.

will we evolve without vocal chords?(I suppose that might be DEvolve)…

my grandsons have both a Iphone and an ITouch, they NEVER EVER talk on the phone but they text on the ITouch all the time. If I want to talk to them I don’t call I just text. Sad, I would bet there are days when they never ever use their voice.

Holly, dear; if you wouldn’t want to read it about yourself on the top half of the front page of the New York Times. DON’T text it about someone else. Too late, you say? Well, you can always hire Amanda Bynes or Paulina Gretzky as your media adviser…

Actually, restaurants are so noisy (and play such Gawd-awful music) that I will sometimes text the person at the other end of the table, simply because a conversation is impossible.

I don’t know when bars and nightclubs started playing music so loud that it was deafening, and you had to shout and scream to the person next to you. But I wish and hope that all that will blow up and crash one day, and then those places can be actually enjoyable again.

oh texting someone at your table while eating out is the worst !!!!! To me it’s like whispering into someones ear in front of others!!!!

Yes, it’s your words being recorded without saying it. Simply put, it’s your mind literally being read.

I get it now Holly.

Please, no swearing in the comments.

I rather talk with someone instead of texting, which is dumb unless you need it to reach other to a co-worker.

Talking and texting can be the same when you hurt someone’s feelings.

She should lose phone privileges and apologize to her friend on person.

And given that it was texted. Exactly what was meant by texted. Sent only to the person you offended? Or given a broader audience through Social Disease Networking? Ouch, it only gets worse the more I think about it.

Time to start thinking before prattling.

We try to choose a reasonablely quiet place to eat (otherwise he finds my voice too quiet). Ambience is important when dining and modern music would not ever be my choice.