i am socially awkward

[FuSoYa]

why can't i leave a simple phone message without freaking out?

 

[FuSoYa]

it's my tone as much as it's the words

 

[The Dope]

I hate it too.

 

[xfer]

do you leave greg-like ten-minute messages that cut off in the middle of giving the phone number?

 

[chupe666]

novemberspaul's machine used to do that to me all the time. he somehow rigged it to give you exactly 60 seconds and then cut off, and by that time i'd be only half way into my second recipe.

 

[FuSoYa]

i think i sound angry when i'm really not angry at all

 

[minxnim]

i always flip out leaving messages. i left greg one last night and i'm sure i was rambling b/c i was walking by an accident scene and i was totally confused and disoriented by the cops and the lights and the friggin phone.
i always freak out about social stuff. i just accepted my weirdness. you should too.

 

[FuSoYa]

I just hope the other party is able to infer that i have a "phone problem"

 

[chupe666]

my stepsister absolutely hates the phone and is ultra short with everyone who talks to her. can't stand to be on the phone more than a minute and sounds really pissed. i used to think i just interrupted her in something i shouldn't have.

 

[minxnim]

toby it's best to just eventually confess to people that you and the phone have taken different paths in life and there's some tension.

 

[Josh Seipp]

relax dude it's fine

 

[chupe666]

i actually miss getting 3am drunk phone messages from texas and chicago
although making them is quite possibly more fun.

 

[Demonspell]

I'm also terrible with phones...I usually stumble and/or sound hesitant when leaving messages and ten minutes is an endless conversation with my lack of patience...

 

[mindspell]

I have a friend who the minute he is drunks starts calling half the phone book. The guy leaves drunken messages while in a bar pissed out of his mind and all you can hear is a wall of sound and him giggling like a schoolgirl. And he will call more than once if you make the mistake of answering more than twice.

 

[azal]

I always have a prepared speach when making important phone calls, but it all goes to shit within the first 3 seconds.

 

[Absolut_Jim_Varney]

in 9th grade i took a class about relationships and in the textbook there was a section about "eliminating phone anxiety"
it made me really happy to see that, because it meant that it's kind of a known thing, like a lot of people get nervous on the phone, because I always have

 

[Novembers Paul]

Eric, My machine did suck. I think it was something brutal like 20 seconds, and I couldn't change it. I always loved how it would cut someone off, and they would call back to continue, but they would get cut off a second time while complaining how they got cut off the first time.

 

[inkybmistro]

no one is more socially awkward than i.

 

[Ominous Luminous]

I just had to leave a message with a person, which is actually easier than leaving a message on a machine. Secretarys rule.

 

[Astral Poetry]

I sometimes write out things that I want to say, especially when I have to have a serious conversation with someone. It's kind of odd and I rarely end up reading verbatum.