Lynne Truss Quotes
When A Phone Call Competes For Attention With A Real-world Conversation, It Wins. Everyone Knows The Distinctive High-and-dry Feeling Of Being Abandoned For A Phone Call, And Of Having To Compensate - With Quite Elaborate Behaviours = For The Sudden Half-disappearance Of The Person We Were Just Speaking To. 'Go Ahead!' We Say. 'Don't Mind Us! Oh Look, Here's A Magazine I Can Read!' When The Call Is Over, Other Rituals Come Into Play, To Minimise The Disruption Caused And To Restore Good Feeling.
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