Just call me Oprah.

Okay, I am going to go all old cranky woman for a minute so bear with me.

What is up with all of the texting? Why on earth do 11 year olds need to be texting...Hey. to a friend that they just spent the day with at school instead of talking to a friend that is sitting right next to them? It's not just kids though. I have had grown women that I thought I was having quite the interesting conversation with whip out a phone and text away. I want to ask what they just texted but would that be rude? As rude as them whipping it out in the first place? Do two rudes cancel themselves out?

I will give you cell phones. It is nice to be able to feel secure that if your car was to spontaneously careen off of the road you would be able to call for help or if you were caught out late at night. I'm going to give you that. I will even give you a quick phone chat with a friend while you are waiting on your kids and have nothing else better to do and no one around to talk to, but that is where I stop. I blame air conditioning. or television. I blame air conditioning and television.

When my mom was a little girl they didn't have television. You heard me. They didn't even have television and because she was the youngest daughter of a minister they didn't even have it when others did have it. She can remember vividly her best friend all of a sudden not playing with her any more because that friend had to go watch television in the house. Before air conditioning everyone would sit on their front porch and chat with passersby. Now with air conditioning we spend the summers locked up tight as a drum in our little comfortable cocoons. Oo oo I could blame computers to, but I'm not going to. I would tell you why but that will be a whole other post.

I have a challenge for you. I like to play a game. I found out that my daddy plays it too which I found hysterical. I am so much like my daddy it isn't funny. The game is this....When you meet a person whether you know them or not your goal is to have them happier when they are leaving your little visit than when they first started it. A smile is good. A laugh is better. Do not crawl into your little proverbial cocoon because you are shy. Get over it. These people don't know you! They will probably never see you again so why do you care if they think you are crazy? It is exhilarating to have a person go from angry and fuming to jovial and laughing all because of something you did or said! Try it. I promise you won't be dissappointed. I would challenge you to not text for one day but I'm guessing that would be like you asking me to go without sugar for a day and that ain't happenin' either so we will just agree to disagree on that bad boy K? K.