Hanging up?!

Now I don’t know about other people (who are probably saner and less inhuman as I am) but I could never stand talking in the phone for more than a minute. It’s so bad though, sometimes I could never focus on what the person on the other end of the line was talking about since I would constantly ponder on when that person will realize that I am not interested in talking for more than one minute over the phone and decides to hang up. It’s almost like how my parents treat me actually. They just keep being silent until I realize they’re not interested and I’ll eventually go away. Sometimes I even think that my existence in their life are being unacknowledged. “Mum, I saw a wild snake today!” “Dad, I got beaten by the school bully this morning!” and no answer.

Anyways, so what happened today is that a person from the real estate called me and did a background check which took about fifteen-twenty minutes of my already boring life. I couldn’t really figure out why they need to do a background check on me since I am basically a 20 year old Indonesian man with a South American slash Middle Easterner slash Indian face. Wait, I think that had just explained itself. They might think that I will bomb the house or something like that. I don’t know, but racism sucks. The area that I’m applying for is called St. Peters(burg), which is near to this crazy hippie-hipster area called Newtown. Maybe the real estate thought that if they approve me then I will bomb Newtown to the ground, and then the hipsters and hippies will roam the inner area of Sydney instead, replacing the businessmen & women and therefore collapsing the economy of Australia. And it’s all because of me. 

I feel somewhat special now. 

If being marked as a terrorist is considered making yourself feel special sort-of-thing. 

Anyway, I don’t know.

But yeah, do you feel the same way when you have to talk to people longer than you expected it to be? Let me know in the comments section if you do, because I would love to read it. Actually I want to know as well if you have weird or unusual phone etiquette or rules as well. See, my one rule to talking over the phone is the no talking for more than one minute rule, except if it’s something important, like phone sex. Which, frankly enough always takes about the same time too... or sometimes even under.