ARE YOU AWAKE?

ARE YOU AWAKE?

I can only guess

It doesn’t matter where you are, but one-sided conversations are always interesting and make your brain wonder at the answers that could be.

Here is an example of a few of them I heard recently.

SCENARIO ONE:

As I was sitting in a doctor’s waiting room at approximately 9:00am, I noticed a woman activate her cell phone’s contact list and select a name.

“Hi, are you awake?” I heard her say.

My thought was, “if whoever you called answered the phone, isn’t it obvious that the person IS awake? Unless that person is sleepwalking / talking.”

“Okay, then, so what are you doing?”

Hmm, my thought? “Talking to you, of course.” That is unless she interrupted something.

You see, for me, I’m up usually no later than seven in the morning and yet, my friends know enough not to call before nine. I want my coffee and get the day rolling. More often, unless it’s important to actually speak to me, they’ll text and give me the opportunity to answer as time allows.

“I’m sitting here in the doctor’s office. Yeah, I left you a note.”

Hmm, my thought? I’m going to take a leap here and assume she’s speaking with her husband, or at least someone she’s living with and if she left a note, why is she calling to say where she is? Weird!!

“No, I just got here. What are your plans for the day?”

Hmm, my thought? If you left that person a note, and I think I safely assumed you live with that person, is there no communication regarding the events of each person? Ah, wait! Maybe not since you left that person a note saying you had a doctor’s appointment. Again, weird!

****She must have seen my trying deliberately to avoid eavesdropping and lowered her voice to an almost inaudible mumble.

SCENARIO TWO:

I was walking aisle to aisle in the supermarket picking up the items I so carefully placed on my shopping list when I heard, “Oh, you’re being so ridiculous. I will not!”

Hmm, so who’s being ridiculous and what won’t she do?

I know she couldn’t have been asked to shop naked; her statement now has me wondering.

She spoke again. “Then you do it!” She was getting a bit louder and more abrupt. Okay, clearly, whoever she was speaking with didn’t ask her to shop naked since she said, “you do it” and that person wasn’t here.

Hmm, made me wonder, Then I heard her say, “I’ll be home when I get there, not a minute sooner. Then I’m putting away the groceries, making a cup of coffee, and putting my feet up! Don’t even try to tell me that you have a problem with that!”

Okay, then, clearly, she’s having a difficult day and whoever’s on her receiving end is going to join her in her misery!

SCENARIO THREE:

Mt friends and I go out to lunch once a month and last week, as we sat in the small diner, we were sure each once there heard this one-sided conversation.

“Can you believe him? I’d like to smack him upside his head, and then some!”

My friends and I looked at each other.

The woman was a bit loud but then, again, we could see she was clearly agitated.

“He needs to watch his tone of voice. And let’s not forget the words he said! And in front of everyone. What an ass!”

Hmm. Okay, she’s not happy with .. huh, who? Her husband? Her friend’s husband? Any relative? Or maybe it was a conversation she overheard somewhere.

SCENARIO FOUR:

My husband and I were in the waiting room of the radiologist’s office, patiently waiting for my husband’s name to be called. Normally, I don’t accompany him, but he wasn’t feeling well, and I didn’t want him driving alone to keep his appointment.

We heard a cell phone ring (chime? Buzz whatever the noise was!) and the gentleman a few seats away, answered it.

“Yeah, it’s me!”

Hmm, my thought? It’s your phone! Who else would answer it unless you were in an accident and couldn’t answer it on your own. But wouldn’t you at least say, “hello?”

The conversation continued a little louder.

“She did WHAT?” (the other person must have answered.)

“No! I told you!” (the other person must have answered.)

“Hell NO!” (the other person must have answered.)

“I will NOT call her!” (the other person must have answered.)

“That’s what I’m paying you for!”

And he disconnected the call.

Hmm! My first thought? He’s going through a divorce and his soon-to-be isn’t cooperating the way he wants her to.

All these scenarios happened and if you’re like me, your mind will wander and wonder just what was being said on the other end of the line.

Whether my guess is right or wrong, and that doesn’t matter, it definitely gives me something to write about.

Have a great day and remember, when you’re out in public and your phone rings, you just never know who might be within earshot!