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July 17th, 2006 under Emotions and Therapy

Honey and I have a tendency to personify things that ought not to be personified. We speak in the voices of the inanimate.

Yesterday I bought a new cell phone on Amazon. When we got in the car to go to lunch, she asked (as if she were the cell phone charger cord), “Um, excuse me? What’s going to happen to me when the new cell phone comes?” I felt bad. For a cord.

I told Honey that it was too easy to make me feel bad about these kinds of things. She allowed as how it wasn’t as much fun because it was too easy. She then thought for a minute and said, “it’s still fun, though.”

This morning, when I put my coffee (which I later spilled–sigh) in the cup holder, I saw the phone charger…and felt guilty about replacing it.

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[ # 435 ] Comment from treecup [July 17, 2006, 9:33 am]

Hubband does a little act about our car and how it honked for our attention at the car lot. It gets me every time.

[ # 436 ] Comment from sporksforall [July 17, 2006, 9:34 am]

I’ve heard him do it and it makes me feel like your car is really sweet and a little needy.

[ # 440 ] Comment from scout [July 17, 2006, 12:40 pm]

I’m sorry. I’m a terrible person. Really, your cell phone charger has about as much emotional content as a piece of toast. (”Ow, you’re burning me!” said the brave little slice of whole wheat.)

[ # 441 ] Comment from sporksforall [July 17, 2006, 1:22 pm]

See, now I’m feeling sorry for a MADE UP piece of toast. :(

[ # 445 ] Comment from WenWhit [July 17, 2006, 7:46 pm]

I wonder what an “innocent piece of trash” says when forcibly kicked?

[ # 446 ] Comment from sporksforall [July 17, 2006, 7:54 pm]

If Scout K. Honey were personifying it, I’d feel sorry for the trash, too.

[ # 447 ] Comment from WenWhit [July 17, 2006, 8:41 pm]

SKH? Have I not already enough nicknames for that woman?

[ # 453 ] Comment from WordsRock [July 18, 2006, 6:28 pm]

There is no such thing as too many nicknames.

I’m feeling sorry for the discarded phone charger too and am thinking perhaps you spilling your coffee is somehow related to your cord callousness.

[ # 454 ] Comment from sporksforall [July 18, 2006, 6:31 pm]

On too many nicknames: Wendy rejected THREE nickname proposals today. So.

I could send the charger to you to go with the sporks. That might make it feel better.

[ # 473 ] Comment from bryduck [July 21, 2006, 11:12 am]

I know how you feel, sporks. Every time I visit I feel nostalgic pain for all the toys/stuffed animals I’ve left behind at my mom’s house. At least the phone charger cord has electricity running through it occasionally–it could become sentient, right?!

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