I love when this happens. Yeah, so I suppose I earned my degrees in psychology, but even I have trouble staying tuned into a conversation if it all is being directed toward me without me being invited to join before a decent amount of time has lapsed. I don't know if this is very common, but if I'm involved in a conversation and the person I'm talking to doesn't let me say anything for a certain period of time, I lose interest and my mind begins to wander a bit. I'm thinking that might be fairly common, but don't have the stats to back it up at this juncture. In any case, if one of the two parties is doing all the talking, that other party may just feel like it wouldn't matter who they were, so long as a living being is there, they would suffice. I know some people may not be thinking about this at times, but even though it seems as if their world is going to end (according to them) and they have a great number of things to get off their chest, it's nice to give the other person a chance to speak. It shows that the person cares on some level or another, either about them as a person or their opinions. If all that's occurring is one person talking to the other, then it's just going to feel more like a shrink-patient conversation and one of the two parties may be asking for a check at the end of it. Speaking of which, I may need to start doing that...
I love music and enjoy hitting the bar(s) over the weekend, so naturally, when the mood strikes me, I've never been coy about playing some songs on the jukebox. This past Thursday, a friend of mine turned 50, so several friends of her's, including myself, all met up to celebrate the occasion. At around 9:30, a friend of mine and I both chipped in $5 to play some songs on the jukebox. Four hours and 231 skips later, we gave up on hearing the songs we had selected, and went home knowing we had just wasted $5. This wasn't the first time such a thing had happened to me (and many others), and due to that, I'll be boycotting jukeboxes. Why? The scam known as TouchTunes. You see, here's how the plot typically breaks down. A person (or group of people) downloads the TouchTunes app on his/her phone, consumes one too many adult beverages, and due to this, has less care for spending extra money to hear the songs of their choosing right NOW. That's the thing with TouchTun
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