As a seasoned traveler, I have long given up any hope of any of my friends or family members giving a crap where I am at any given time. It's not that they don't care but when you add 100,000 miles to your total every year, there just isn't much to say about the place you go especially when you are going to the same few places over and over again and at some point it all becomes routine. Well as I'm sitting in the Delta lounge in Tokyo today there is a dude who is on Skype on his laptop and had to call every single person in his Rolodex and started every conversation with the same "you'll NEVER guess where I am?" From the responses he was getting it didn't seem like anybody gave a crap especially when you consider the guy wasn't exactly calling from downtown Tokyo at at Sumo wresting event or at some awesome temple but was calling as he was waiting for a connection in the terminal.
Each conversation went something like this
Fat Jerry"hey Jenny, you'll never guess where I am"
Disinterested Jenny "I don't know Jerry, in Columbus?"
Fat Jerry "I'm in Tokyo.. at the airport"
Disinterested Jenny "wow"
Fat Jerry "crazy right.. I'm waiting for a connection to Seoul"
Disinterested Jenny "oh"
Fat Jerry "log onto the webthing. so we can see each other on the computer"
Disinterested Jenny "Jerry it is like 11pm here, I got to go to bed"
Fat Jerry "alright..catch you on the other side of the international date line"
wash, rinse, repeat 10 times over again.
like they say to a young wide-receiver when he catches a touchdown, act like you've been there before.
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