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What the fuck do they want?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] HurlingDurling 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] hakunawazo 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe just a status message without obligation to write back

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I mean ... at least they're really far away?

[–] nzeayn 11 points 1 month ago

if they are using the phone function of my phone, we are not friends.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least it's a phone call. No eye contact required!

[–] Opisek 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But it's a phone call. Please just text me instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Very true. There are definitely calls that could just be texts...

[–] randon31415 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"..except in bed"?

I don't get it?

[–] PriorityMotif 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

*Soon. It's a name. Needs a capital letter.

[–] toynbee 5 points 1 month ago

At least you can be assured it was chicken.

[–] finkrat 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fucking Billy. Every time it's him. All I ask is he give a heads up text first. Great dude though, one of my closest friends.

Edit: he's distant in terms of physical space

[–] DaddleDew 3 points 1 month ago

Better change phone numbers without telling anyone just to be safe

[–] Agent641 3 points 1 month ago

"Jesse we need to cook"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If they're distant...we're not friends...fortune cookie prophet. A pox on thee!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If my best friend up in Oregon randomly called me, that would be the only time I actually answer my phone.