So, I have to know. What's with people not saying "goodbye" anymore when they are finished speaking with you on the telephone? Is it that we're a nation of emailers and texters who have simply forgotten the basics of one-on-one, person-to-person communication and that we've simply decided to drop the generic code for "over and out" (which is usually some form of the word or idea of goodbye, i.e.; "later, peace, buh-bye")?
People, I thought, only communicated in this manner on the soaps. Years of taking in 2nd-hand soap, (as my mom had an affinity for All My Children and General Hospital througout my childhood), showed me a world in which phone conversations always ended with a close up camera shot, and a receiver click. So abnormal and weird. I used to watch these shows and think, "people don't talk like that". But having worked on the phones for almost 2 years, now, I can assure you: They Do.
And it's abnormal and weird.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Peace.
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