Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You

(NYT, Free Reg Req)I’ve been in this flow for quite a while now. The only people who call me or that I call (outside of absolute have to, such as dealing with the phone company) and actually talk to on the phone are my immediate family and a friend or two close enough to fall under the heading of immediate family. Everything else… e-mail or voicemail. Sometimes, if I have to (as opposed to want to) call someone, I deliberately choose the time most likely to get their voicemail to make my call, so I can accomplish the task without having to actually speak to anybody for real.