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To: Crocodile who wrote (62608)	5/18/2002 11:43:25 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I am sure you are right. People are losing some of the grace of conversation. But on DAR I've always felt it was alive and well. Now what was it you were saying? I've forgotten. :-)

To: Crocodile who wrote (62608)	5/18/2002 11:52:37 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

This is all so true. LIke X, I have been guilty of not listening- or half-listening-- to my kids. I think it's partially being a stay at home mom; there are just times your brain shuts down in self-defense. But it can become a habit. Dan and I learned early that there are different levels of listening and just because he could self-righteously parrot back at me what I had just said when challenged, which he always could, did not mean he was LISTENING, DAMN IT! We had to work out a time where neither of us is allowed to do anything else while talking. We have to look at each other and we ignore the phone and everything else. Well, we ignore the phone anyway as much as possible. I have never understood why people can't let a phone ring. The use of cell phones has reached an absurd stage. EVERYONE at Tom Thumb has one glued to his ear, and there are always one or two with a headset on, which looks just psychotic, as I think COs once pointed out. EVery child in Yuppieville has his own. Dan is probably the only business person in the world without one. I read a funny story somewhere- oh dear- was it here?- about a flight attendant who was late to her flight and asked a handsome man on the shuttle bus who was on his cellphone obviously conducting an important, impressive deal, if she could use his phone to call in, and he had to admit it was a dummy phone. That story has bothered me since I read it-- not sure why. Is it because it's sort of a commentary on the superficiality of our lives?