So, I was ribbing my friend Tom from improv class (and by "ribbing" I mean "being an asshole to", because as I post and reread this, I see what a horrible monster-person I sound like. An honest monster-person, but a horrible one. Fuck! Gotta work on that!) because he really truly isn't the best at chatting online. Now, you have to understand that this would be trivial if it wasn't the main way I communicate these days. It's all we use for work to communicate. Hearing a co-workers voice is as rare as taking a shower, which should sound like an inaccurate comparison, but disgustingly*, it's not.
This is what I mean when I say someone is "bad" at chatting online:
1) They disappear for hours on end without so much as a "BRB" and when they return LONG after you've given up on them and closed the window, a new box pops up on your screen with the words "haha" in response to whatever you last wrote. No frame of reference. Annoyingston, Maryland.
2) After every time they return, they feel the need to do the whole "hey, what's up?" thing, as if anything changed for you while they were in the bathroom. Maybe it did, but leave it up to the other person to mention it. Otherwise we're just wasting time we could be using to shit talk our mutual friends.
3) Insist upon continuing the exact same conversation every time you chat.
That's just the tip of the iceberg, but I'm tired and I feel like a bitch. I'm going to bed now.
* For you, that is.
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This is what I mean when I say someone is "bad" at chatting online:
1) They disappear for hours on end without so much as a "BRB" and when they return LONG after you've given up on them and closed the window, a new box pops up on your screen with the words "haha" in response to whatever you last wrote. No frame of reference. Annoyingston, Maryland.
2) After every time they return, they feel the need to do the whole "hey, what's up?" thing, as if anything changed for you while they were in the bathroom. Maybe it did, but leave it up to the other person to mention it. Otherwise we're just wasting time we could be using to shit talk our mutual friends.
3) Insist upon continuing the exact same conversation every time you chat.
That's just the tip of the iceberg, but I'm tired and I feel like a bitch. I'm going to bed now.
* For you, that is.