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Fri | February 10, 2006

mon problème du moment

My problem of the moment is how to NOT go insane from listening to the person two spots away from me. She is probably a perfectly fine person. I don't know her. What I know is that she answers some sort of 1-800 line. She says the same handful of things all day. If you wrote down all the words she said in a day and graphed them, you'd find a very limited lexicon. If you wrote down all the sentences and phrases you'd find many of the same thing.

She sounds like a robot. She sounds like the space-age voice on my voicemail. It has this soothing quality that paradoxically makes me angry. It is soothing and yet disembodied and mechanical. Now when I call my voicemailbox I feel angry.

I think I would be annoyed at whoever sits next to me. It comes from the proximity and the repetition of it all.

I don't know what to do. I want to punch her to bits. Every time her phone rings I die a small writhing death. I have headphones but I can't listen to music all day. Besides, I can hear her voice underneath the music. I need to get noise-blocking headphones, the huge padded ones.

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